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plant-eating

eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle. (of animals) feeding on plants.


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green wavelength in plant photosynthesis

@robsabba: carotenoids don't really absorb much green light, look up an absorbtion spectrum if you don't believe me. @dummy92 The plants will actually grow in green light for a while, and they will probably grow faster. Here's why: when a plant seed originally germinates, it doesn't need ...

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by MrMistery
Sat Sep 05, 2009 5:44 am
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: green wavelength in plant photosynthesis
Replies: 3
Views: 64

Re: green wavelength in plant photosynthesis

hi guys, i'm new around here. I'm doing an experiment of how tomato seedlings of the same type response to different light spectrum. i read on the internet that green light is useless for plants. but what happens to those seedlings which are exposed only to green light. certainly they don't die. be...

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by robsabba
Tue Sep 01, 2009 3:59 pm
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: green wavelength in plant photosynthesis
Replies: 3
Views: 64

Re: Natural selection is proven wrong

... were to become a new "subspecies" that with further change becomes a new "species". In farming there are "breeds" of plants, camels and cows that are still able to interbreed with each other but farmers consider them a new breed. In science different breeds of cows ...

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by GaryGaulin
Tue Sep 01, 2009 3:00 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16276

what is the meaning of Chlorophyll a/ chorophyll b ratio in

i don't know what the numerical value is for any particular organism, but it has to do with growing in low light. If the plant grows in very low light, it will accumulate more clorophyll b to capture more light, so the ration will decrease.

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by MrMistery
Mon Aug 31, 2009 1:15 am
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: what is the meaning of Chlorophyll a/ chorophyll b ratio in
Replies: 1
Views: 41

green wavelength in plant photosynthesis

Plants that grow under a green light will not died. Actually they grow a bit faster, BUT you will see a significant difference when comparing. The plant should come out weaker in some manner. Maybe the stem will be thinner or leaves might have a have more of a yellowish color in them. If you compare ...

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by LostBio
Sat Aug 29, 2009 12:36 pm
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: green wavelength in plant photosynthesis
Replies: 3
Views: 64
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