The emerald green Nostoc sphaeroides(EGNS) is a new germpalsm of Nostoc sphaeroides. This study investigated the effect of light quality on the pigment content of EGNS by comparing and analyzing the colony size growing under six kinds of light quality. The results showed that different light quality has influence on the pigment content of EGNS with an appreciable scale effect. The green light promoted the synthesis of chlorophyll-a, the blue light promoted the synthesis of the phycoerythrin and the carotenoids, both the red light and the red orange light promoted the synthesis of allophycocyan...