chlorophyl

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One of the poorest matches in my limited tries was chlorophyll vs. xanthophyll.

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any of a group of green pigments found in photosynthetic organisms; there are four naturally occurring forms

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noun

any of a group of green pigments found in photosynthetic organisms; there are four naturally occurring forms

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noun

any of a group of green pigments found in photosynthetic organisms; there are four naturally occurring forms

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One of the poorest matches in my limited tries was chlorophyll vs. xanthophyll.

"She sleeps only a few hours a night and sips a homemade concoction of clay, salt and chlorophyll.

It found nothing for the latter and one of the little bits it know about chlorophyll is 'types: many such as a, b, c etc.

Blue and red are the colors of light that are most effectively absorbed by chlorophyll-pigmented plant leaves.

It's basically lower-grade olive or vegetable oil with some added green chlorophyl for color.

"Vegetation is green because chlorophyll is green" is a borderline useless answer that intentionally misses the point of the question.

Interesting thing is that ghost pipes are actually a plant that doesn't contain any chlorophyll, but feed off of the roots of other plants, somewhat similar to some mychorrizal fungi.

Now there has been found a wide range of quantum biological effects, from the action of chlorophyll to the mechanism of our sense of smell, so it seems a lot less implausible than it used to.

Now, 47% of the energy is outside the 400-700nm range that chlorophyll can process so you might be able to double the energy use if you can find a good way to upconvert/downconvert light into that range.

Yes, where interactions between molecules and actual quantum phenomena are expected, for example as postulated for the chlorophyl molecule.

What about the bit about, UV & higher is too destructive to organic molecules for photosynthesis, while IR & lower is a very weak source of energy?That statement isn't just about the particular chlorophyll molecules that evolved on earth.

I didn't exactly get it either, because if they didn't absorb the photons with the extra chlorophyll, it's not like it would go to the other plants anyway...I just assumed there is a more complicated reason involving competition that the article didn't bother going into.

This could be due to a lot of reasons; oxidative stress, a plant's 'desire' to have a large leaf surface, a tendency to dry out the soil too quickly, etc etc.- With the current 'design' of chlorophyl, it is not possible to increase efficiency further, and it's quite hard to get out of the local optimum.