9-Cis REGULATE

Dunaliella Bardawil is a hyper saline protoplast green (chlorophyte) microalga. This species of chlorophyte tends to thrive in warm, hypersaline environments such as the Bardawil lake in Egypt and even in the dead sea. Like fucoxanthin, beta carotene is an accessory pigment. In addition, beta carotene functions in a process called photoprotection by quenching the triplet state of chlorophyll before it reacts with oxygen to form singlet oxygen species (Reactive Oxygen Species). Another role of beta carotene is to regulate energy transfer in the light-harvesting antenna through a process called xanthophyll cycle, avoiding over-excitation of the photosynthetic system by safely dissipating excess energy.