The significance of photoperiod in plants

• Enables plants to flower insect pollinators are active in summer (long-day plants) and autumn (short-day) but not in winter.
• Long-day plants require more exposure to light in order to initiate flowering and can be induced to flower by flashes of light at night
• Short-day plants can be induced to flower covering and eliminating nature light or move the plants into the dark chamber for specific periods of time.
• Short day and day neutral plants on the other hand, tend to live nearer the equator where days and nights are about the same length all the year, but in the temperature zone long day tend to flower in summer and short-day plants flower in the autumn.

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