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How can plants tell when to flower and why do species come out at that time?

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Environmental factors serve as indicators and plants can have characteristic circadian rhythms too:

http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/files/filelibrary/616/17562.htm

http://pcp.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/20/8/1659.pdf

http://www.smv.org/JIL/mll/ktwo/MLLK-2TL-CA-canpla.pdf

Anthony Brach Ph.D.


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