The photomolecular evaporative effect

I read that science has recently proven what they call "the photomolecular effect". So what they have proven is that water molecules can be excited by a photon and can evaporate at temperatures that are well below the recognized evaporation temperature.
  This can help gardeners to understand the importance of keeping the sun off of soil. It's just another reason to do closed canopy cropping use stratification and use mulch.
 Here is an article but it's stating a hypothesis. I couldn't find the original article that said to have proven the effect.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2312751120

Light, striking the water's surface where air and water meet, can break water molecules away and float them into the air, causing evaporation in the absence of any source of heat. The astonishing new discovery could have a wide range of significant implications.

Here's another article from MIT - How light can vaporize water without the need for heat

In a series of painstakingly precise experiments, a team of researchers at MIT has demonstrated that heat isn’t alone in causing water to evaporate. Light, striking the water’s surface where air and water meet, can break water molecules away and float them into the air, causing evaporation in the absence of any source of heat.

That page also links to this research article- Photomolecular effect: Visible light interaction with air–water interface

We use 14 different experiments to demonstrate the existence of the photomolecular effect: photons in the visible spectrum cleave off water clusters from air–water interfaces. We use laser to study single air–water interfaces and show polarization, angle of incidence, and wavelength dependent responses, peaking at green where bulk water does not absorb. Raman and infrared absorption spectra and temperature distribution in air show the existence of water clusters under light. We suggest the photomolecular effect provides a mechanism to resolve the long-standing puzzle of larger measured solar absorptance of clouds than theoretical predictions based on bulk water optical constants and demonstrate that visible light can heat up clouds. Our work suggests that photomolecular evaporation is prevalent in nature.

And a couple of videos from before the publication of the research.

Part of the quote above:

wavelength dependent responses, peaking at green

I saw interesting data on this recently. Interesting the effect "green" has on the process. I can't remember the specific site, but I got the gist that it helped explain why trees have a greater effect than basic understanding allowed for.   Just goes to show that there's always more to discover when people think/look at the world from a new angle.