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Starch grains in red cultivar, variegated, senescent and green leafs?

We made a procedure in the lab in which we boiled all these leafs in ethanol, took them out and stain them with iodine. We observed that the green leaf stained completely; the variegated leaf stained in the green parts, the red cultivar stained in sections and the senescent didn't stain. My question is: Knowing that red leaves have a lot of accessory pigments, i suspect that the stained places are those in which chlorophyll a is present. If chlorophyll a is the main pigment in photosynthesis and accessory pigments absorb different wavelength but do not carry photosynthesis themselves, how is it possible that these plants survive with so little amount of starch? And, knowing that solar light have all wavelengths, how come some people in my lab mentioned that this adaptation is beneficial under shady conditions?
Thanks in advance for your help...

Starch is a storage product, and can be mobilized, hydrolyzed, and the sugars transported to other cells, correct? Can you suggest an experiment to find out if starch stored in a cell in a green section of a leaf gets used elsewhere?

As to your second question, what colors of light are blocked (absorbed) by leaves? So what might be a useful adaptation for photosynthesis for a plant that, say, normally grows under trees? Is that where you typically find plants with red leaves in nature?

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