There’s been advances in knowing how sunflowers track the sun, but botanists are still arguing over why. And, to make things confusing, they could all be right.
There’s been advances in knowing how sunflowers track the sun, but botanists are still arguing over why. And, to make things confusing, they could all be right.
What is it about a sunflower that makes it a sunflower? There seems to have been a bit of a flurry of papers on phototropism in sunflowers recently. The recent study in Annals by Kutschera and Briggs has picked up a few citations. For example Science published a paper by Atamian et al. on how sunflowers use circadian rhythms to track the sun.
¿Puede la investigación sobre razas locales brindarnos una mejor comprensión sobre las posibles características que permitirían aumentar la tolerancia a salinidad en cultivos?
Los efectos del cambio climático, la frecuencia de incendios y la defaunación, actuando en conjunto, afectan negativamente la estructura y función de la sabana brasileña.