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Why is having multiple pigments an advantage for plants?
Having more pigments means more sunlight being captured and trapped, hence facilitating an effective light reaction. The additional pigments would provide protection to the chlorophyll molecule against photo-oxidation.
What is the function of other pigments in plant leaves?
Role of Accessory Pigments: Accessory pigments help plants absorb additional light. Plants need to make these accessory pigments to maximize the amount of photosynthesis they can do. More pigments = More glucose or food for the plant!
Why might plants have pigments other than chlorophyll?
Land plants (and plants in the ocean, called algae) have a lot of chlorophyll-a pigment because it is essential to photosynthesis, but they also have other pigments, called accessory pigments, that help them absorb light.
What is the function of each plant pigment?
Plant pigments are important in controlling photosynthesis, growth and development of plants (Sudhakar et al., 2016). Pigments act as visible signals to attract insects, birds and animals for pollination and seed dispersal. Pigments also protect plants from damage caused by UV and visible light (Tanaka et al., 2008).
Why do leaves have pigments?
Plant leaves contain pigments that are used in photosynthesis and other cellular processes. It absorbs energy from sunlight and helps converts it into chemical energy during the light dependent reactions of photosynthesis. Other pigments are also present in leaves, called carotenoids.
Why are pigments necessary for plant development?
What is the role of pigments Why are most plants green?
Pigments are colorful chemical compounds that reflect light of a specific wavelength and absorb other wavelengths. It is a process by which green plants produce carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water by the help of chlorophyll (green pigment in plants) in the presence of light energy.
Why are pigments important in plants?
Do all leaves have the same pigments?
That means that the leaves use colors other than green to work in the production of sugars. In fact, chlorophyll absorbs mostly blue and some orange light. Although chlorophyll only absorbs blue and orange light, other pigments in the leaves absorb the other colors. Some of those other pigments are called carotenoids.