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World Service,1 min

How do Sunflowers track the sun?

Science In Action

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Professor Stacy Harmer, of the University of California Davis, explains how young sunflowers track the sun as it moves from east to west. It’s all down to the internal clock in the plant’s cells interacting with hormones that bend and stretch the stem. Image: Ben Blackman/UC Berkeley

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