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Women in Science: So how do plants know when to flower?

The flush of flowering of poppies in a field makes the point very visually – the control of flowering time is a tightly regulated process. All the poppies choose to flower within a day or two of each other, having individually integrated a range of environmental and endogenous signals over many months.

By | Notebook, Science & Technology | Wednesday, 18 July 2012 at 11:07 am

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