Unlike most plants, it does not contain chlorophyll; it is a myco-heterotroph, getting its food through parasitism upon fungi rather than photosynthesis.
Feeding by soybean aphids injures soybean by interfering with photosynthetic pathwaysmore specifically, biological mechanisms responsible for restoring chlorophyll to a low energy state are impaired.
Electrons are removed from excited chlorophyll molecules and transferred through a series of intermediate carriers to "ferredoxin", a water-soluble electron carrier.
