http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304377011000179
I'd hoped to copy some section that addressed red tissue development in NEW tissue(the young newest leaves and the anthocyanin content) in Lace plant. This article covered new growth nicely.
This is why the tip growth is nice and pink/redder than the rest of the leaves in most color variable aquatic plant species. If the plant growers faster, then there are more new leaves and less time for the development of the green chlorophyll to change the leaf coloration.
So adding more light can help, but in the context of faster growth, not a response to the light itself by changing the pigmentation due to higher intensity.
I'd hoped to copy some section that addressed red tissue development in NEW tissue(the young newest leaves and the anthocyanin content) in Lace plant. This article covered new growth nicely.
This is why the tip growth is nice and pink/redder than the rest of the leaves in most color variable aquatic plant species. If the plant growers faster, then there are more new leaves and less time for the development of the green chlorophyll to change the leaf coloration.
So adding more light can help, but in the context of faster growth, not a response to the light itself by changing the pigmentation due to higher intensity.