Dr Mike Haydon
Senior Lecturer, School of BioSciences, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne
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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
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
Environment
Go Figure
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.