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 the University of California, Davis, ...

One of the most remarkable capabilities of living things is phototropism—in which living organisms track and move with light sources. The most familiar example of this phenomenon is flowers that move ...

Sunflowers are famous for following the sun as it moves across the sky. So how do they do it? While previous work has proposed a mechanism for this movement, new work has suggested that the biological ...

Sunflowers demonstrate phototropism - the ability to rotate their head so that the face of the head always faces the sun even though the angle of the sun's rays on ...

Here are six things to know about sunflowers: In a textbook display of phototropism, sunflower buds move to follow the sun’s path daily. But when the terminal bud is ready to open, the head becomes ...