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Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution / Do green plants absorb green light?
« on: 13/01/2010 22:45:44 »The light that reaches the forest floor is the light that has passed between the leaves, branches, etc, of the forest canopy. not much light actually goes straight through the leaves. So the light that reaches, and nourishes, the grass is mostly white. to check this go into the forest and look at a piece of white paper. If the paper looks like the green section of the light spectrum, I'm wrong.jaclin asked the Naked Scientists:Of course they do!
Do the green leaves of a plant absorb green light during photosynthesis?
What do you think?
In the dark forest you can see the grass, which grows purely on green light, because only this spectrum can pass through trees partly unabsorbed.
Besides the chlorophyll, plants have other pigments, which take part in photosynthesis too. The color of this pigments you can see in the autumn.