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by Sniffnoy 2152 days ago
I'm confused though -- how can the plant possibly vary this?
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In principle plants have several different variants of the light absorbing molecules with different absorption spectra but I don't know how this would actually be regulated. But it is certainly imaginable that plants vary the relative abundance of the different light absorbing molecules or their efficiencies and this could be more or less automatic because of varying conditions like pH or whatnot that affects efficiency or lifetime of the molecules with a simple feedback mechanism or it could be actively regulated by a more complex feedback loop.