Plant Pigment References

[Andrea B.]

Nature's Palette: the Science of Plant Color

David Lee

University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007

This is a high-level introductory survey of the subject. Some basic chemistry, physics and botany is assumed. Lots of examples, colour photos and other illustrations.

 

Plant Pigments and Their Manipulation

K. Davies, editor

CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2004

The preceding author, D. Lee, finds this the "most useful book on plant pigments to be published in the last 25 years".

 

Chemistry and Biochemistry of Plant Pigments, 2nd Ed., Vol. 1

T.W. Goodwin, editor

Academic Press, London, 1976

[DaveO]

I posted this elsewhere but here it is again as it got lost at the end of a long post

how to colour a flower

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/283/1830/20160429

If you only read ONE paper this year it should be this