| 1. | Xanthophylls, especially the orange-red zeaxanthin, are also common.
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| 2. | Besides chlorophyll, plants also use pigments such as carotenes and xanthophylls.
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| 3. | Xanthophylls are often yellow, hence their class name.
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| 4. | It gives rise to the xanthophylls diatoxanthin and dinoxanthin.
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| 5. | For this reason, the xanthophyll cycle is sometimes called the violaxanthin cycle.
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| 6. | Xanthophyll absorbs well at 400-530 nm.
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| 7. | These xanthophylls protect the eye from ionizing blue and ultraviolet light, which they absorb.
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| 8. | It is important in the xanthophyll cycle.
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| 9. | Also present were minor amounts of xanthophyll, a molecule structurally related to the carotenes.
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| 10. | "' Dinoxanthin "'is a type of xanthophyll found in dinoflagellates.
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