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Could trees know when the summer solstice is?

By Andrew Hacket-Pain, Senior Lecturer, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool

People have been celebrating the summer solstice with elaborate rituals since prehistoric times. But humans aren’t the only species to take mark June 21 as a special time. Studies are showing the summer solstice is an important cue for plants too.

Recent studies, including one of my own, have proposed that trees may use the longest day of the year as a key marker for their…

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