How sunflowers see the sun (VIDEO)

University of California - Davis

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Sunflowers famously turn their faces to follow the sun as it crosses the sky. But how do sunflowers “see” the sun to follow it? New work from plant biologists at UC Davis, published Oct. 31 in PLOS Biology, shows that they use a different, novel mechanism from that previously thought.

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Stacey Harmer/UC Davis

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