FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues for the second of three weekends on the theme of plant clocks, why they exist, and how they work. These mechanisms are ubiquitous across taxa, and are sophisticated in construction. In many (or most) cases, when external stimuli are removed, they keep ticking. Living things, it seems, are obsessed with time, and have put a lot of ingenuity into marking its passage. I shall refrain from quoting TS Eliot.
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022