Fig. 8.

(a) The effect of chloroplasts positions on the leaf light absorptance spectrum between 400 and 700nm under direct light. (b) The predicted effect of chloroplast positions on light curves under direct blue light. (c) The effect of chloroplast arrangement on the distribution of CSSI in palisade tissue (top) and spongy tissue (bottom) under direct blue light. Black squares represent results for chloroplasts in face position and gray triangles represent results for chloroplasts in a profile position. (d) Corresponding distribution of light absorptance of (c), i.e. the sum of the absorptance of all chloroplasts with the same CSSI in (c) (the definition of CSSI is in the legend of Fig. 2). Black arrow indicates the absorptance reallocated under the two chloroplast positions.