The green or gold leaf hostas including the variegated forms of these colored leaf perennials are a slugs idea of smorgasbord delights. The waxy coated leaves of this blue hosta are plants that slugs donât like to eat.
Skin pigmentation. Melanin, whose primary function is in pigmentation, has many more important functions to perform in the human body. Protection from UV radiation. Melanin functions as a sunscreen and as a broad spectrum sun radiation absorbent. The absorbed energy causes redox reactions, and both eumelanin and pheomelanin form free radical species. Eumelanin, being more photostable scavenges the originated oxidative species and neutralizes them.
Afrika 2004). Energy Transfer Melanin is located in strategic places around the body to where conversion takes place in order to absorb from our environment e.g. the retina, brain, inner ear and skin. It absorbs and converts forms of electromagnetic energy to be used by the nervous system.elanin production is stimulated by light from the sun as well as artificial light. The body has the ability to use UV light from the sun in order to make Vitamin D. Vitamin D is used in the body to turn into a hormone which stimulates the absorption of calcium in the intestines.