Mark Greenwood and James Locke from the ̽»¨Ö±²¥'s Sainsbury Laboratory reveal how plants tell the time and coordinate their cellular rhythms. This article was originally published on ̽»¨Ö±²¥Conversation.
As parents of identical twins will tell you, they are never actually identical, even though they have the same genes. This is also true in the plant world. Now, new research by the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge is helping to explain why ‘twin’ plants, with identical genes, grown in identical environments continue to display unique characteristics all of their own.
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