Green light drives leaf photosynthesis more efficiently than red light in strong white light: Revisiting the enigmatic question of why leaves are green

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 684-697

  Terashima, Ichiro ^a   Fujita, Takashi ^a   Inoue, Takeshi ^a   Chow, Wah Soon ^b   Oguchi, Riichi ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll; Fluorescence; Palisade tissue; Photoinhibition; Quantum yield; Spongy tissue

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHLOROPLAST; FLUOROMETRY; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SUNFLOWER;

CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPLASTS; FLUOROMETRY; HELIANTHUS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

HELIANTHUS;

EID: 65249099545     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcp034     Document Type: Article

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