Red Emersed Leaves

• To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
• Subject: Red Emersed Leaves
• From: JDAVIS at bio_tamu.edu
• Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 12:21:32 -0600

Hi all,

Red emersed leaves are a sign of "protective" pigments being produced by the leaves to cope with 
high levels of light.  Light has a bad habit of tearing up chlorophyll (kind of a catch22) and wneh 
light levels increase the plants make additional pigments that can sop up some of the extra light 
sparing the chlorophyll molecules.

John
John
 
--oOOo----oOOo----oOOo----oOOo----oOOo----oOOo----oOOo----oOOo----oOOo-

    http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~jmd9261
    jdavis at bio_tamu.edu
    jmd9261 at tam2000_tamu.edu
  
----------oOOo----oOOo-------------------------------------------------

• Prev: Re: Flourish
• Next: Re: Living Whatever Vital
• Index: Aquatic-Plants Mailing List