Why is chlorophyll b only used in light-harvesting systems?

Importance of the green color, absorption gradient, and spectral absorption of chloroplasts for the radiative energy balance of leaves

(2017) Atsushi Kume   JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH

Leaf color is fine-tuned on the solar spectra to avoid strand direct solar radiation

(2016) Atsushi Kume et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH

Evolution of Green Plants Accompanied Changes in Light-Harvesting Systems

(2016) Motoshi Kunugi et al.   PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Simultaneous regulation of antenna size and photosystem I/II stoichiometry in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2016) Ting Jia et al.   PLANTA

On the stability of radiometric ratios of photosynthetically active radiation to global solar radiation in Tsukuba, Japan

(2015) Tomoko Akitsu et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Light-harvesting II antenna trimers connect energetically the entire photosynthetic machinery — including both photosystems II and I

(2015) Michele Grieco et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

An intact light harvesting complex I antenna system is required for complete state transitions in Arabidopsis

(2015) Samuel L. Benson et al.   Nature Plants

Evolution under the sun: optimizing light harvesting in photosynthesis

(2014) A. V. Ruban   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Natural strategies for photosynthetic light harvesting

(2014) Roberta Croce et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

How light competition between plants affects their response to climate change

(2014) Marloes P. van Loon et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Internal and external factors affecting photosynthetic pigment composition in plants: a meta-analytical approach

(2014) Raquel Esteban et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Functional Analyses of the Plant Photosystem I-Light-Harvesting Complex II Supercomplex Reveal That Light-Harvesting Complex II Loosely Bound to Photosystem II Is a Very Efficient Antenna for Photosystem I in State II

(2012) P. Galka et al.   PLANT CELL

Photosynthetic Quantum Yield Dynamics: From Photosystems to Leaves

(2012) S. W. Hogewoning et al.   PLANT CELL

Chlorophyll cycle regulates the construction and destruction of the light-harvesting complexes

(2011) Ryouichi Tanaka et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Efficiency of photosynthesis in a Chl d -utilizing cyanobacterium is comparable to or higher than that in Chl a -utilizing oxygenic species

(2011) S.P. Mielke et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Expanding the solar spectrum used by photosynthesis

(2011) Min Chen et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Functional architecture of higher plant photosystem II supercomplexes

(2009) Stefano Caffarri et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

A viewpoint: Why chlorophyll a?

(2009) Lars Olof Björn et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Evidence of Global Chlorophyll d

(2008) Y. Kashiyama et al.   SCIENCE