Many visually guided frugivores have eyes highly adapted for blue sensitivity, which makes
it perhaps surprising that blue pigmented fruits are not more common. However, some fruits …

Plant epidermis are multifunctional surfaces that directly affect how plants interact with
animals or microorganisms and influence their ability to harvest or protect from abiotic …

This Tutorial introduces structural color in fruits as a phenomenon of diverse optical
materials. Originally best known in abiotic materials and animals, structural colors are being …

In this study, we examine leaf reflectance as the main optical property used in remote
sensing of vegetation. The total leaf reflectance consists of two main components: a diffuse …

At the outer canopy, the white leaves of Actinidia kolomikta can turn pink but they stay white
in A. polygama. We hypothesized that the different leaf colors in the two Actinidia species …

The hierarchical micro-/nanotextures, which adorn the petal surfaces of a majority of
flowering plant species, have been reported to often exhibit outstanding sunlight-capturing …