Nature's Growing Clock (6)

Nature's Growing Clock (6) · 1:26 · Intellect Plus

In short: Plants utilize an endogenous circadian clock to anticipate environmental changes and synchronize physiological processes like growth and flowering.

A 1:26 short film in the series “The Story Behind”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.

Sources used in this film: Nature Communications Biology, “Circadian and photoperiodic regulation of the vegetative to reproductive transition in plants”; National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), “Plant Circadian Rhythms”; National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), “Coordinative regulation of plants growth and development by light and circadian clock”; National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), “Phytochrome and Phytohormones: Working in Tandem for Plant Growth and Development”; National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), “The Plant Circadian Oscillator”; National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), “Genetic Architecture of Flowering Phenology in Cereals and Opportunities for Crop Improvement”; Springer, “Plant phenology shifts under climate warming: a systematic review of recent scientific literature”.

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