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Charles Darwin became fascinated by why plants wiggle -- spinning and twisting into corkscrews.
A new study from the University of Colorado at Boulder and Tel Aviv University may have solved the riddle.
The findings could one day help farmers come up with new strategies for growing an array of crops in more efficient arrangements.
Sunflowers grow in zig-zag patterns that allow each plant to find maximum light exposure.
Meroz: "When you add a little bit of noise into the system, it allows the plant to explore its surroundings and settle into those configurations" In future experiments, the researchers will test out how sunflowers grew in more complicated arrangements.
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