Claim · model-written summary
Blue grown leaves had the highest light harvesting pigment levels.
- Taxon
- tomato plants
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Organ / stage
- Leavese0
- Treatment
- blue lighte0
- Outcome
- light harvesting pigmentse0
- Direction
- higheste0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“Leaves grown under blue light contained the highest levels of light harvesting pigments”
t0“Tomato Plants”
Title
J. Anja Dieleman; Pieter H. B. De Visser; Esther Meinen; et al. Frontiers in Plant Science 2019. doi:10.3389/fpls.2019.00839
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Blue light produced shorter tomato plants and smaller upward oriented leaves.
- Intervention effect Blue grown leaves had the lowest photosynthesis rate when exposed to blue light.
- Intervention effect Blue grown leaves had the highest photosynthesis rate under white light.
- Intervention effect Green light produced taller tomato plants with nearly horizontal leaves and high specific leaf area.
- Mechanism The open green light plant structure and leaf optics enabled deeper canopy penetration.
- Observation Red, amber and white light produced comparable plant height, leaf area and biomass.
- Observation Simulations showed architecture changes significantly affected leaf and crop light absorbance.
- Observation Green grown plants receiving red light had the highest simulated crop photosynthesis rate.
- Recommendation Dynamic light spectra may increase growth and production in greenhouse horticulture and vertical farming.