Plants Suffer from Jet Lag Too

Scientists have discovered more about how the natural circadian rhythms of plants react when they are disrupted.  Plants follow a finely tuned daily activity cycle that helps their genes respond to things like dawn and dusk which, in turn, helps regulate things like growth and flowering.  The study discovered that plants, like people, have a physical response when those natural rhythms are disrupted by, oh, say, traveling across the world.