Phytochrome

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What Wikipedia says

Phytochromes are a class of photoreceptor proteins found in plants as well as certain fungi and bacteria. Characteristically they use bile pigments to absorb light in the red to far-red region of the spectrum, changing their colour as they do so (see Fig. 1).

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