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Preferred term

chlorophyll

Definition

  • [Henderson's] n. principal light-capturing pig­ment of plants, algae and cyanobacteria, consisting of a porphyrin (tetrapyrrole) ring with a magnesium atom at the centre and esterified to a long-chain aliphatic alcohol (phytol), different chlorophylls having dif­ferent side chains. In plants and algae, chlorophyll is located in the thylakoid membranes of chloroplasts. It absorbs light best in the red and violet-blue regions of the spectrum, chemically distinct chloro­phylls having different absorption maxima. Chlorophylls a and b are found in higher plants and green algae, chlorophyll a in cyanobacteria, chlorophylls c and d in algae. see also bacteriochlorophyll.

Broader concept

Note

  • [controlled by ] Heikki Hamalainen

Scope note

  • US LTER controlled vocabulary

Creator

  • herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at

In other languages

Arabic

  • الكلوروفيل

Bulgarian

  • Хлорофил

Croatian

  • klorofil

Czech

  • chlorofyl

Danish

  • klorofyl

Dutch

  • chlorofyl

Estonian

  • klorofüll

Finnish

  • klorofylli, lehtivihreä

French

  • chlorophylle

German

  • Chlorophyll

Greek

  • χλωροφύλλη

Hungarian

  • klorofil

Italian

  • clorofilla

Latvian

  • hlorofils

Lithuanian

  • chlorofilas

Norwegian

  • klorofyll

Polish

  • chlorofil

Portuguese

  • clorofila

Romanian

  • clorofilă

Slovak

  • chlorofyl

Slovenian

  • klorofil

Spanish

  • clorofila

Swedish

  • klorofyll

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/20784

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