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How are plant pigments involved in photosynthesis?

How are plant pigments involved in photosynthesis?

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Plant pigments - as other pigments - interact with light to absorb only certain wavelengths. In plants the different sorts of pigments are useful to absorb available wavelengths of light and enable photosynthesis in shadow, in bright sunshine, in deep sea etc.: each pigment reacts with only a narrow range of the spectrum, there is usually a need to produce several kinds of pigments, each of a different color, to capture as much as possible of the sun's energy.

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