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chlorophyll

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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

French

  • chlorophylle

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/USLterCV_102

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