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Old 09-11-2007, 12:56 PM posted to rec.gardens,rec.food.cooking,sci.agriculture,sci.physics,sci.optics
Beladi Nasralla Beladi Nasralla is offline
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Default growing vegetables under different light

On Nov 4, 2:14 am, Frank frankdotlogullo@comcastperiodnet wrote:
Beladi Nasralla wrote:
If the vegetables are growing illuminated exclusively by blue light,
will they be different in taste from the vegetables which are growing
illuminated by, say, exclusively green light ? What would be the
taste ?


(I presume that the chlorofylle in the plants needs to be illuminated
by the light of a certain wavelength or above, in order for the
chemical reaction of photosynthesis to take place. This will probably
result in different taste molecules been formed. That's all I know...)


Not quite what you want but mentions tomato's taste effected by light:http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/85/8544cover.html


Thanks everyone who answered. The question is still open.