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Popular Science reports that broccoli grown under pink light, a mix of red and blue wavelengths used in indoor LED farming, shows improved growth. The piece explores how tailored light spectra can boost crop yields in controlled-environment agriculture, a technique increasingly relevant as growers seek ways to produce food with less land, water, and reliance on weather.

Researchers report that broccoli grows well beneath semi-transparent magenta solar panels, adding to evidence that agriculture and solar power generation can share the same land. The tinted panels alter the light spectrum reaching crops while still producing electricity, and the findings support growing interest in agrivoltaics as a way to boost food and clean energy output together.