Buckeye Said </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>
Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">The chlorophyll in the chloroplasts is what makes the plant green, so what makes a red vft red instead of green?? And how does it perform photosynthesis?? Anyone know??
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Chloroplasts always contain the green pigment chlorophyll along with enzymes and other products that function in the photosynthetic production of food. The chlorophyll of chloroplasts may be masked by other pigments such as phycoerythrin and phycocyanin, giving red and blue plastids, respectively. However, all coloured chloroplasts, whatever their apparent colour, contain chlorophyll. "
So whatever pigment is produced in the Chloroplast, it does not prevent the Chlorophyll from photosynthesising.
That quote explains it better than I could ever hope too. The original web page can be found
Here
Goldtrap2690 said </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>
Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"> plant are green because of chloroplast , chlorophyll , and also chlorine and chloroform
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I've heard that Chloroform is used to extract Chlorophyll from Chloroplast's. However I've not heard that Chlorine and Chloroform are present in plants cells, or are used for food production. Is this true? Any references handy?
Goldtrap2690 said
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Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">can any of you find a plant with no green at all, its quite impossible[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
Wow, that got me thinking. You're probably right, but it's bugging me as I
think I've seen plants out there without any green. I guess to qualify there would have to be no TRACE of green in them (Even the new growth).
What about the Japanese Maple ( Acer palmatum 'Dissectum Atroppureum' ) ? The classic Japanese maple has red-purple leaves which turn a brilliant red in autumn.
Japanese Maple Picture Info about it
Or the A. japonicum 'Aureum', which produces all yellow leaves?
Anyone else seen plants that are any colour, other than Green? Goldtrap is surely right, these plants probably display some tinge of green somwhere on them, during there lifecycle. I don't have one handy to check! It's really bugging me though.
I also think an all blue VFT is out, unless genetic engineering or something similar is used. It sounds simple enough. Find the code for producing anthocyanin (the red CP pigment) and replace with the code for producing phycocyanin (a blue plant pigment) (Do this to an all red VFT and you get an all blue VFT, or you turn into BrundleFly! heheheh, evil laugh)
But people having been playing with Blue and plants for years. Look up the quest to breed an all blue Rose!
Jacko