Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 106, No. 37 (Sep. 15, 2009), pp. 15538-15543 (6 pages) Breakdown of chlorophyll is a major contributor to the ...
Chlorophyll is the green pigment found in plants that absorbs the light used to power photosynthesis, explains Barry Logan, Bowdoin’s Samuel S. Butcher Professor in the Natural Sciences. “Curiously, ...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Scientists report that it is possible to detect and predict heat damage in crops by measuring the fluorescent light signature of plant leaves experiencing heat stress. If collected ...
Ripe yellow bananas appear blue under ultraviolet light, reports a research team led by Bernhard Kräutler, a chemistry professor at the University of Innsbruck, in Austria (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., DOI: ...
When fall comes and plants begin to prepare for the long winter, the chlorophyll in their leaves is broken down. This is probably the most dramatic example of the general process known as senescence, ...
In the brown-colored diatoms, fucoxanthin absorbs green light and transfers the energy to photosynthetic chlorophylls that emit part of this energy as red fluorescent light (right). Cells of the green ...
One of the biggest temptations facing a scientist is to try and reproduce natural phenomena which are so fascinating given their effectiveness and perfection. Scientists have now designed a set of ...
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How Light Affects The Growth Of Your Plant
Light plays a fundamental role in the growth and development of plants. It serves as an essential energy source for photosynthesis and also influences various physiological processes, including seed ...
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