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plants actually turn yellow when the veins in the leaf stop sending nutreints to the leaf. those are vital nutreints to the plant and without them the plants shivel up and die! turning yellow is a sighn of diying

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It turns off chlorophyll production to conserve energy, as without sunlight the chlorophyll is just "extra baggage" to carry. It can continue to live on its carbohydrate stores for a period of time, waiting for the return of the sunlight.

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without sunlight, plants can't produce chlorophyll, which makes the plant green

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