How leaves reflect light reveals evolutionary history of seed plants

ScienceDaily
Oct 14, 2020, 5:13 pm155 pts
The way leaves reflect light, known as plant reflectance spectra, can illuminate the evolutionary history of seed plants, according to researchers. The researchers found that by measuring the light spectrum reflected by leaves, they can identify the plant and its chemistry, evolution and place in the tree of…

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