Apr 18 2026SCIENCE
Plant Cells Use a Biochemical “Switch” to Decide When to Grow and Flower
Plants face changing weather every day, so they must turn short‑term stress into lasting growth plans. A new idea calls this process an “epigenetic set‑point, ” where the structure of DNA and its associated proteins works like a smart switch. The switch gathers two kinds of signals: the plant’s ener
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