Dr Mike Haydon

Senior Lecturer, School of BioSciences, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne

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Sciences & Technology

Drugging plants to learn their secrets

Discovering chemicals that affect plant circadian rhythms could improve crop yields – bringing us a step closer to ‘chronoculture’

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Sciences & Technology

How plants tell time

Unlike us, plants can’t head to the fridge for a midnight snack, but a new study shows they sense time at dusk to conserve energy produced from sunlight during the day

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Sciences & Technology

The chemical that tells plants when it’s time to sleep

Ethylene is famous as the chemical that tells bananas to ripen, but new research shows it also helps maintain plants’ circadian clocks

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Environment

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How sunflowers track the sun

Once a mythological story of unrequited love was used as an explanation. Now we know there is an internal clock driving its daily movement.