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 ...

The way a young sunflower turns its bright yellow head to follow the movements of the Sun across the sky each day can be quite dramatic, in terms of plant activity. Now scientists have been surprised ...

Most of us aren’t spending our days watching our houseplants grow. We see their signs of life only occasionally – a new leaf unfurled, a stem leaning toward the window. But in the summer of 1863, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Why do sunflowers follow the sun? More sunlight equals better growth, and the plants know it. New research shows this sun-tracking is a circadian rhythm. The plants turn overnight to face east because ...

Most of us aren't spending our days watching our houseplants grow. We see their signs of life only occasionally—a new leaf unfurled, a stem leaning toward the window. But in the summer of 1863, ...