What are short day and long day plants?

What are short day and long day plants?
By: Carol Savonen
Source: Ann VanDerZanden
Oregon State University

Botanists used to think that the length of daylight a plant was exposed to determined whether a plant would form flowers. But experiments proved otherwise. It is the length of darkness that a plant experiences that plays the most crucial role.

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