Chlorophyll ''d'' is a form of
chlorophyll, identified by
Harold Strain and
Winston Manning
Winston may refer to:
Places Antarctica
* Winston Glacier
Australia
* Winston, Queensland, a suburb of the City of Mount Isa
United Kingdom
* Winston, County Durham, England, a village
* Winston, Suffolk, England, a village and civil pari ...
in 1943.
It is present in
cyanobacteria which use energy captured from sunlight for photosynthesis. Chlorophyll ''d'' absorbs
far-red light, at 710 nm wavelength, just outside the optical range. An organism that contains chlorophyll ''d'' is adapted to an environment such as moderately deep water, where it can use far red light for photosynthesis, although there is not a lot of visible light.
References
{{Plant pigments
Tetrapyrroles
Photosynthetic pigments