Sunflowers famously turn their faces to follow the sun as it crosses the sky. But how do sunflowers ‘see’ the sun to follow it? Plant biologists show that they use a different, novel mechanism from that previously thought.
Sunflowers famously turn their faces to follow the sun as it crosses the sky. But how do sunflowers ‘see’ the sun to follow it? Plant biologists show that they use a different, novel mechanism from that previously thought.