Main Reaction: alpha-carotene >> lutein

Reference: PubMed ID: 17186217
Authors: Just BJ, Santos CA, Fonseca ME, Boiteux LS, Oloizia BB, Simon PW
Title: Carotenoid biosynthesis structural genes in carrot (Daucus carota): isolation, sequence-characterization, single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers and genome mapping.
Published: 2007 Feb

alpha-carotene --> lutein