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Schematic summary of phototropic solar tracking in a growing sunflower plant (A), and position of the mature head at anthesis, and during fruiting (B). Note that, in the younger, solar-tracking plant, both the stem and the upper leaves turn towards the sun (adapted from Shibaoka and Yamaki, 1959).
