Does red light affect the growth of corn plant & ferns?

I have a science project to complete about corn plants and wild plants and their growth under red light. I know red light has effect on some wild plants (ferns), but I am not sure which ones. whatever information, you can give me would be greatly appreciated. thanks.

Does red light affect the growth of corn plant %26amp; ferns?
Plants use every spectrum of light during photosythesis EXCEPT green (which is why photosythetic portions of the plant look green!). The most important part of the light spectrum for photosythesis is the blue/violet portion, although they also need a good amount of red spectrum light. If you were to expose a plant to only one part of the spectrum (eg - only red light) it will either be very weak or simply die. Plants do best with a purple looking light (blue light + red light = purple), as that gives them all the spectrums of light that they need.
Reply:All plants use red light in the photosynthesis process. There are two frequencies of red light that are used by different plants but they all use one or the other frequency.