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Plant cannot carry out photosynthesis is moonlight because it does not carry enough energy to excite chlorophyll molecule, i.e, reaction centres PS I and PS II, so light dependent reactions does not get initiate. Thus, no photosynthesis occurs in presence of moonlight.
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