Plant biologist Stacey Harmer studies how sunflowers are able to follow the sun. Her new research shows that sunflowers respond to the sun through a previously unknown mechanism. (Sasha Bakhter, UC ...
The way a young sunflower turns its bright yellow head to follow the movements of the Sun across the sky each day can be quite dramatic, in terms of plant activity. Now scientists have been surprised ...
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• Background and Aims Light interception is a critical factor in the production of biomass. The study presented here describes a method used to take account of architectural changes over time in ...
A field of young sunflowers will slowly rotate from east to west during the course of a sunny day, each leaf seeking out as much sunlight as possible as the sun moves across the sky through an ...
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