Biological light harvesting complexes[1] act as an antenna network. I guess the shape and other properties of such a complex change depending on conditions. Th

Biological light harvesting complexes[1] act as an antenna network. I guess the shape and other properties of such a complex change depending on conditions. The paper doesn't really try to explain the biological tuning mechanism. Instead, they created a model of an antenna network capable of tuning. As in, this model had a bunch of parameters describing how it captured light and tuned. Then if they optimized those parameters for stability given the light spectra that different plants are exposed to, they found that their model would reproduce the actual absorption spectra of those plants. This strongly suggest that the plants have done the same optimization by evolution. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-harvesting_complexes_of_green_plants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-harvesting_complexes_of_...