Write three differences between short day and long-day plants.

1.	Write three differences between short day and long-day plants.
Answer» Short day plants: • They flower when exposed to day lengths shorter than a certain critical miniminm • Do not flower if the dark period is interrupted by a flash of light. • They normally flower in the early spring or autumn. Long day plants • They flower when exposed to day lengths longer than a certain critical minimwn. • Flowering is stinmiated if the dark period is interrupted by a flash of light. • They normally flower in the late spring or early summer

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Short day plants:

• They flower when exposed to day lengths shorter than a certain critical miniminm

• Do not flower if the dark period is interrupted by a flash of light.

• They normally flower in the early spring or autumn.

Long day plants

• They flower when exposed to day lengths longer than a certain critical minimwn.

• Flowering is stinmiated if the dark period is interrupted by a flash of light.

• They normally flower in the late spring or early summer

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