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Despite appearing to recover, sunflowers retain drought damage

Despite appearing to recover, sunflowers retain drought damageWorldPing

Sunflowers are unable to fully recover from drought, new research has found, contradicting previous findings on the plant's ability to reverse drought-induced failure of water-transporting tissues and revealing new insights into how drought affects plants.

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