{"id":217651,"date":"2025-07-11T14:05:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T19:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/how-plants-sense-heat-during-the-day"},"modified":"2025-07-11T14:05:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T19:05:58","slug":"how-plants-sense-heat-during-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/how-plants-sense-heat-during-the-day","title":{"rendered":"How plants sense heat during the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-plants-sense-heat-during-the-day2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a decade, scientists have believed that plants sensed temperature mainly through specialized proteins, and mainly at night when the air is cool. New research suggests that during the day, another signal takes over. Sugar, produced in sunlight, helps plants detect heat and decide when to grow.<\/p>\n<p>The study shows that plants rely on multiple heat-sensing systems, and that sugar plays a central and previously unrecognized role in daytime temperature response. The findings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-60498-7\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Communications,<\/i> reshape a long-standing view of how plants interact with their environment and could influence future strategies for climate-resilient agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur textbooks say that proteins like phytochrome B and early flowering 3 (ELF3) are the main thermosensors in plants,\u201d the senior author said. \u201cBut those models are based on nighttime data. We wanted to know what\u2019s happening during the day, when light and temperature are both high because these are the conditions most plants actually experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a decade, scientists have believed that plants sensed temperature mainly through specialized proteins, and mainly at night when the air is cool. New research suggests that during the day, another signal takes over. Sugar, produced in sunlight, helps plants detect heat and decide when to grow. The study shows that plants rely on multiple [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}