What are accesory pigments and why are they important?
Accessory pigments, also called, Photosynthetic Pigments or Chloroplast pigments, are pigments which are present within the cell of a Chloroplast used to harvest a greater spectrum of light.y are colored compounds which absorb and transfer light energy to chlorophyll. Pigments are light-absorbing molecules. In addition to chlorophyll,other pigments, principally yellow and orange carotenoids, as well asother forms of chlorophyll, are also present in green plants. These molecules absorb light and then pass the energy to the chlorophyll and accessory pigments, like the carotenoids, enable the plants to use more ofthe light than is trapped by chlorophyll alone.
