Comment on Atmospheric Slapping Tournament

• Slatlun@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A little, the stretching house plant demonstrates how plants can sense the direction light is coming from. They can also sense qualities of light. They can tell if light is filtered through other leaves, for instance. I would speculate that refected light also has a unique color (wavelength) distribution that a plant could sense and respond to

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The reflected light of other leaves wouldn’t cause photosynthesis since it only has wavelengths that the chloroplasts reflect. They wouldn’t have any light to absorb, or at least a lot less.

    I imagine it’s like expecting regular soda and getting diet.

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  • AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I would speculate that [reflected] light also has a unique color (wavelength) distribution that a plant could sense and respond to

    It seems as far as we can tell, trees can detect “far red” spectrum light, suspected to be done via phytochromes, and that spectrum of light is in higher quantities when closer to other tree leaves because it gets reflected off.

    They detect that, and don’t grow as much in that direction since it would cause diminishing returns.

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