Australia researchers find the new chlorophyll

Australia researchers find the new chlorophyll
Australia researchers find the new chlorophyll
The university students of Sydney of Australia order scientific institute's researchers to announce on the 20th, they have found a kind of new chlorophyll, it can be expected to have broad application prospect in the field of living beings energy. Researchers drew this kind of chlorophyll in a algae green fungus colony of the West Australia shark gulf accidentally, name it as chlorophyll f. Test indicates, it is 720 nanometers of mere participation photosynthesis that the chlorophyll f can pass and absorb the upper limit of the spectrum, this spectrum is in the near infrared area, it is 10 nanometers longer than the spectrum upper limit that the chlorophyll d absorbs, it is 40 nanometers longer than the spectrum upper limit that the chlorophyll a absorbs. The photosynthesis changes the light energy into the course of chemical energy through formating some organic matter, the chlorophyll is the most important pigment related to photosynthesis. Scientific circles has thought the chlorophyll can only absorb the visible light among 400 nanometer to 700 nanometer of the spectrum and participate in the photosynthesis, but the scientist found in 1996, the chlorophyll d can absorb the spectrum and participate in the photosynthesis for nearing the infrared light of 710 nanometers. Australian researchers think, the discovery of the chlorophyll f will rewrite some basic concepts that relevant chlorophyll participate in the photosynthesis again. This research results are issued on new American Science on the 20th. Researchers say, the chlorophyll f can be absorbed and closer to the light in the infrared region, may be much greater than what scientific circles think before this that this indicates to be all to shut the spectrum that the living beings can utilize, the efficiency of the photosynthesis far exceeds scientific circles to imagine too. Researchers think, the chlorophyll f can be expected to be used widely in the field of plant biotechnology and biological energy.


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