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Alien plants may come in all colours but blue

Model shows the rainbow of plant life possible in the Universe.

A picnic on a far-flung planet orbiting a red dwarf might involve spreading your blanket on black grass and munching on purple veggies, according to a new model.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on April 11, 2007
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To achieve maximum efficiency, why would a thoeretical photosynthetic organism reflect light of any color? The ideal photosynthetic organism should be black.

Posted by: Jeff | April 11, 2007 10:26 PM

In order for readers to reach out to other coauthors of Kiang et al. papers in footnotes 1 and 2 , I provide here all the names:
Footnote1) For Astrobiology 7(1)222-251: N.Y. Kiang; J. Siefert, Govindjee and R.E. Blankenship
Footnote 2) For Astrobiology 7(1)252-274:N.Kiang,A.Segura, G.Tinetti, Govindjee, R.E. Blankenship,M. Cohen,J. Siefert, D. Crisp and V.S. Meadows

Posted by: Professor Govindjee | May 7, 2007 07:16 PM

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