Self-assembled, disordered structural color from fruit wax bloom

R Middleton, SA Tunstad, A Knapp, S Winters… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Many visually guided frugivores have eyes highly adapted for blue sensitivity, which makes
it perhaps surprising that blue pigmented fruits are not more common. However, some fruits …

Lipids for Taste masking and Taste assessment in pharmaceutical formulations

S Banerjee, U Joshi, A Singh, VA Saharan - Chemistry and Physics of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Pharmaceutical products often have drawbacks of unacceptable taste and palatability which
makes it quite difficult for oral administration to some special populations like pediatrics and …

Multiple origins of lipid‐based structural colors contribute to a gradient of fruit colors in Viburnum (Adoxaceae)

MA Sinnott‐Armstrong, R Middleton, Y Ogawa… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Structural color is poorly known in plants relative to animals. In fruits, only a handful of cases
have been described, including in Viburnum tinus where the blue color results from a …

Viburnum tinus fruits use lipids to produce metallic blue structural color

R Middleton, M Sinnott-Armstrong, Y Ogawa, G Jacucci… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Viburnum tinus is an evergreen shrub that is native to the Mediterranean region but
cultivated widely in Europe and around the world. It produces ripe metallic blue fruits …