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• Aqivex@fedinsfw.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anthocyanins!.

  Which curiously enough, can also photosynthesize, and more readily absorb energy from green light than chlorophyll!

  Makes me wonder what could be achieved with some careful engineering…

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Purple Humans who don’t need to eat.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    there are plenty of purple plants, im guessing certain plants evolved to do this, and most remain green(there also other complicated mechanism like cam, c2,etc.

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  • rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That paper talks only about it producing red leaves, or “vermilion” as it calls them.

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• sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wish I knew lol

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  • isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They never got the update.

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• ignominous_wombat@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My wife is a horticulturist and she has showed me some plants with sun stress that have turned a reddish purple when they’re not supposed to. Eventually, the plant will die if not given a reprieve.

  Maybe there is some sort of adaptation happening where the plants have been trying to survive in a low shade environment for a long time, and being purple helps in some way, so it became permanent. But I am just speculating.

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• Sirdubdee@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cold nights while growing.

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