{"id":7896,"date":"2016-08-07T08:09:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T12:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7896"},"modified":"2016-08-07T08:09:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T12:09:34","slug":"why-sunflowers-move-with-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/08\/why-sunflowers-move-with-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Why sunflowers move with the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever driven past a field of sunflowers and seen them all facing the same direction? \u00a0They seem to follow the sun. \u00a0But how do they do it? \u00a0I saw a fascinating story this week about scientists who finally figured out the mechanism for growth that allows the sunflowers to move with the sun during the day and return to facing east overnight. \u00a0Once they are mature, they stop moving and always face east, which allows their flowers to warm up faster, attracting more pollinators. \u00a0Bees like warm flowers; who knew?<\/p>\n<p>You can read and hear about this at NPR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/08\/05\/488891151\/the-mystery-of-why-sunflowers-turn-to-follow-the-sun-solved?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=npr&amp;utm_term=nprnews&amp;utm_content=20160805\">here<\/a> and at the Los Angeles Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/science\/sciencenow\/la-sci-sn-sunflowers-direction-20160804-snap-story.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/sunflower-field-nd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7897\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/sunflower-field-nd-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"sunflower field nd\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/sunflower-field-nd-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/sunflower-field-nd-223x138.jpg 223w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/sunflower-field-nd.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever driven past a field of sunflowers and seen them all facing the same direction? \u00a0They seem to follow the sun. \u00a0But how do they do it? \u00a0I saw a fascinating story this week about scientists who finally figured out the mechanism for growth that allows the sunflowers to move with the sun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":7897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7898,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896\/revisions\/7898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}