生物化学工程与生物过程技术杂志

Managerial Role Of Pigments in Organism

Raj Sekhar

Accessory pigments are light-absorbing compounds, found in photosynthetic organisms, that employment in conjunction with chlorophyll. They include other sorts of this pigment, like chlorophyll in green algal and better plant antennae, while other algae may contain chlorophyll c or d. additionally, there are many non-chlorophyll accessory pigments, like carotenoids or phycobiliproteins, which also absorb light and transfer that light energy to photosystem chlorophyll. A number of these accessory pigments, especially the carotenoids, also serve to soak up and dissipate excess light energy, or work as antioxidants.[the massive , physically associated group of chlorophylls and other accessory pigments is usually mentioned as a pigment bed