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In tropical rain forests, the canopy is thick and shorter plants growing below it, receive filtered light. How are they able to carry out phtosynthesis ?

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The light filtering via canopy it is rich in red wavelength and poor in blue-violet wavelengths. Such shady plants bear more carotenoid pigments.
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