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CAS Connect A journey through the microscopic world of plants

A flower of the same GFP plant as in the last image. While the natural color of chlorophyll is green, which is the cause of the green color of plants, its fluorescence is red. Therefore the green leaves of a flower of an Arabidopsis plant are red in this image and the white petals are transparent, because they do not have a natural fluorescence.