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Perhaps it’s just a side effect of some other system in the plant, like an electrical pulse to communicate “the way this branch is growing has little/much sunli
by vages 5y ago
Perhaps it’s just a side effect of some other system in the plant, like an electrical pulse to communicate “the way this branch is growing has little/much sunlight”.
- wyldfire 5y agoThat's a 'phototropism' IIRC and it's not caused by electrical signals but instead by growth hormones called auxins. This is what little I recall from high school biology, anyways. IIRC the auxins inhibit cell division and different ones cause different tropism phenomena.