MACON, Ga. — As we continue our 13WMAZ Backyard Garden series, we're talking about sunflowers. Now that they're in full bloom, we wanted to talk about their interesting journey to get there. Many of ...

Sunflowers famously turn their faces to follow the sun as it crosses the sky. But how do sunflowers 'see' the sun to follow it? Plant biologists show that they use a different, novel mechanism from ...

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Scientists have answered a burning question central to the charm of sunflowers: Why do young flowers move their blooms to always face the sun over the course of a day? And then: Once sunflowers reach ...

Plant a field of sunflowers, and watch them grow. All summer you will see something amazing. In the morning, all the sunflowers will face east, the direction of the rising sun. As the sun moves, so ...

Sunflowers have a circadian rhythm, which tells the cells in the eastern side of the stem to grow slightly longer, causing the blossom to lean westward, researchers say. At night, the message reverses ...

Like clockwork, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west — and sunflowers mimic this pattern. They attentively face the east at dawn and follow the movement of the sun until dusk. Through the ...

Sunflowers famously turn their faces to follow the sun as it crosses the sky. But how do sunflowers “see” the sun to follow it? New work from plant biologists at UC Davis, published Oct. 31 in PLOS ...