photoprotection
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photoprotection (uncountable)
The function, in plants that are adapted to high levels of sunlight, that protects the centres of photosynthesis from damage by excess light, normally by the use of carotenoid pigments
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Another possibility is that the granules provide photoprotection: the bursts of AA fluorescence entail the conversion of damaging UV light to relatively harmless visible light.
Nonetheless, the relationship between skin pigmentation and photoprotection is still being clarified. citation Humans Albinism occurs when melanocytes produce little or no melanin.