Chlorophyll is utilized as a simple, inexpensive and environment-friendly (“green”) colorimetric indicator for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) gas. A drastic color change from green to yellow was observed when chlorophyll, either dissolved in CH2Cl2 solution or absorbed into paper, was exposed to NO2 gas. Other gases such as CO2 and SO2 did not exhibit any color change with chlorophyll. Spectroscopic an...

What is Chlorophyll? Chlorophyll, in various forms, is bound within the living cells of algae and other phytoplankton found in surface water. Chlorophyll is a key biochemical component in the molecular apparatus that is responsible for photosynthesis, the critical process in which the energy from sunlight is used to produce life-sustaining oxygen. In the photosynthetic reaction below, carbon di...

In this paper we examine time-series measurements of near-surface chlorophyll concentration from a mooring that was deployed at 80.5E on the equator in the Indian Ocean in 2010. These data reveal at least six striking spikes in chlorophyll from October through December, at approximately 2-week intervals, that coincide with the development of the fall Wyrtki jets during the transition between th...

Photosynthetic effects of the leaves extracts from Ipomoea cairica on Parthenium hysterophorus L were studied. Ipomoea cairica dried leaf powder (20g) was dissolved in distilled water (200ml) for foliar application. The seedlings were maintained under natural condition in Insect free net house. The experiment was carried out to analyze the effects of Ipomoea cairica leaves extract by measuring ...

The estimation of crop chlorophyll content could provide technical support for precision agriculture. Canopy spectral reflectance was simulated for different chlorophyll levels using radiative transfer models. Then with multiperiod measured hyperspectral data and corresponding chlorophyll content, after extracting six wavelet energy coefficients from the responded bands, an evaluation of soybea...

Sunlight is the most abundant energy source on this planet. However, the ability to convert sunlight into biological energy in the form of adenosine-5'-triphosphate (ATP) is thought to be limited to chlorophyll-containing chloroplasts in photosynthetic organisms. Here we show that mammalian mitochondria can also capture light and synthesize ATP when mixed with a light-capturing metabolite of ch...

Portable, non-destructive chlorophyll meters could be a valuable tool for forest managers and researchers. The ability of such meters to assess both chlorophyll and nitrogen content has been well established for many agricultural species, but not wellstudied for North American forest tree species. The objective of this study was to evaluate the ability of a portable chlorophyll meter to estimat...

Subpicosecond fluorescence upconversion has been used to measure the rate of chlorophyll b to chlorophyll a electronic energy transfer in situ within the LHC pigment proteins of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mutant C2. The time scale of energy transfer is 0.5 & 0.2 ps as determined from the rise time of chlorophyll a fluorescence following chlorophyll b excitation. Estimates of the energy-transfer ...

Action spectra of the Emerson effect in Chlorella and Navicula reveal peaks at 670 mut, in addition to those at 650 mu (Chlorella) and 630 mmicro (Navicula) attributable to chlorophylls b and c. Thus, excitation of chlorophyll a form "chlorophyll a 670" can supplement, in these algae, the excitation of the form "chlorophyll a 680-700." The effect of the auxiliary pigments in these algae may be ...