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Why is green pigment needed in plants?

April 26, 2017needed pigment plants

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Why is green pigment needed in plants?

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Plants utilize blue and red colored spectrum light primarily in their photosynthetic processes, and cannot efficiently use green light. Hence the pigments target and absorb red and blue light, while leaving green light alone to be reflected away and into our eyes when we look at them.