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Black Nigrescens Plant:
http://www.thedangergarden.com/2013/02/ophiopogon-planiscapus-nigrescens-my.html With permission from Loree Bohl,
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Solar spectrum adapted from:
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Chlorophyll spectrum adapted from:
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The Functional Significance of Black-Pigmented Leaves: Photosynthesis, Photoprotection and Productivity in Ophiopogon planiscapus ‘Nigrescens’
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3691134/
Functional evolution of photochemical energy
transformations in oxygen-producing organisms
http://www.publish.csiro.au/FP/pdf/FP09087
Evolutionary Competition Between Primitive Photosynthetic Systems: Existence of an early purple Earth?
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006AAS…209.0605S
A Compilation of Selected Data on Solar Radiation at Sea Level
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/646355.pdf
Green Light Drives CO2 Fixation Deep Within Leaves
http://pcp.oxfordjournals.org/content/39/10/1020.full.pdf+html
Green Light Drives Leaf Photosynthesis More Efficiently than Red Light in Strong White Light: Revisiting the Enigmatic Question of Why Leaves are Green
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http://msue.anr.msu.edu/news/green_light_is_it_important_for_plant_growth
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/40900745_Cost_and_color_of_photosynthesis
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The sensitivity of the human eye to different colors
https://www.ecse.rpi.edu/~schubert/Light-Emitting-Diodes-dot-org/Sample-Chapter.pdf
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