date:Aug 21, 2017
erties and commonly used as food dyes.
Betalains are made by cactus fruit, flowers such as bougainvillea and certain edible plants most notably, beets. They are relatively rare in nature, compared to the two other major groups of plant pigments, and until recently, their synthesis in plants was poorly understood. Prof. Asaph Aharoni of Weizmanns Plant and Environmental Sciences Department and Dr. Guy Polturak, then a research student, along with other team members, used two betalain-producing