Plant responses to light are multiple. Light is an energy source, converted to sugars by photosynthesis. It is also a signal sensed by specific photoreceptors for red, blue and UV-B radiation.

Photosynthesis in the Shade "Until now, researchers have seldom considered the possibility that plants utilise far-red light for photosynthesis", says WUR PhD candidate Tinko Jans. That is because ...

Earth's oceans may have been green for billions of years until the first photosynthetic organisms flooded our atmosphere with oxygen.

Applying these findings in the design of artificial photosynthesis units ... examined two specific sections of the spectrum in which chlorophyll absorbs light: the low-energy Q region (yellow ...

which absorb light from other regions of the spectrum, extending the range of wavelengths absorbed and pass the energy on to chlorophyll for photosynthesis. The different photosynthesis pigments ...