Charles Darwin's Plant Movements
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ubiquitous plant movementsThe Conversation
•Sunflowers make small moves to maximize their Sun exposure − physicists can model them to predict how they grow
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Charles Darwin's fascination with plant movements led him to be fascinated by the little-noticed world of plant movements.
The swoops of cucumber tendrils and zags of carnation leaves are examples of inherent, ubiquitous plant movements called circumnutations.
In a study, researchers found that sunflowers grown in a dense row naturally formed a near-perfect zigzag pattern.
Chantal Nguyen: Scientists and farmers can use plants’ movement to their advantage.
Nguyen: We modeled each plant as a circular crown on a stem, with the crown expanding according to the growth rate we measured experimentally.
The simulated plant moved in a completely random way, taking a “step” every half hour .
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