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Biologists Uncover How Plants Sense Heat during Day


New research led by University of California, Riverside’s Professor Meng Chen shows that plants rely on multiple heat-sensing systems and that sugar -- produced in sunlight -- plays a central and previously unrecognized role in daytime temperature response.

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