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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Photosynth Res. 2017 Jul 24;134(2):175–182. doi: 10.1007/s11120-017-0425-4

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Structure of chlorophyll a and UV-visible absorption spectrum of chlorophyll a. (A) Chlorophyll a consists of a chlorophyllide a headgroup attached to a 4-isprene unit, 20 carbon, phytyl tail. This study investigates the presence of a non-canonical 3-isoprene unit, 15 carbon, farnesyl tail. (B) The UV-visible absorption spectrum of chlorophyll a.