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Name: Robert S.
Status: educator
Age: 50s
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Date: 1999-2001
Question:
What is the underlying mechanism that controls/regulates the opening/closing of flowers (specifically those flowers that close at night and reopen during the day)?

Replies:
Plant movement responses to temperature (thermonasty) and daily rhythms of light and dark (nyctinasty)

http://biocourse.bio.tamu.edu/faculty/hall/Botn101/week12.htm

Anthony R. Brach, Ph.D.


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