Re: Dumb Question (optical properties of plants)


"Carl G." <cginnowzerozeroone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Where is the best place to ask questions about which light
wavelengths/colors are used by plants to photsynthesize and
which are wasted? It really isn't an optics question, but
I didn't see any biology group that looks right either...

The wavelengths depend on the photosynthetic pigment. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetic_pigment

Click on the pigment links (e.g., chlorophyll a) under the _Plants_
heading to get more information about a particular pigment.

There is a picture of the absorptance spectra for chlorophyll a and b near
the spectrophotometry heading at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetic_pigment (look about 3/4 down
the page).

Carl G.

Oops, pasted the wrong link for the chlorophyll spectra. It should have
been:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophyll



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