Plants’ Internal Clock Can Improve Climate Change Models
Thursday, July 2, 2009 - 08:35
in Biology & Nature
The ability of plants to tell the time, a mechanism common to all living beings, enables them to survive, grow and reproduce. Scientists have studied this circadian clock from a molecular viewpoint and has found an ecological implication: it makes climate change scenarios and carbon dioxide level figures more accurate.
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