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- plants in response to the onset of darkness, or a plant "sleeping". Nyctinastic movements are ****ociated with diurnal light and temperature changes and...
- few other species of Mimosa (such as M. pudica), the leaves exhibit nyctinastic movement, folding up quickly when touched or disturbed. It is also said...
- windowless building or room for housing nocturnal or crepuscular animals, or nyctinastic plants. Artificial lighting is staggered to the local natural daylight...
- butterflies such as the falcate orangetip. It has been observed to be nyctinastic, or closing at night, which contributes to its mechanical self pollination...
- species, it undergoes changes in leaf orientation termed "sleep" or nyctinastic movement. The foliage closes during darkness and reopens in light. This...
- substances that encourage leaf-opening and leaf-closing and are the basis of nyctinastic behaviors. Gagliano and colleagues constructed a classical conditioning...
- February 2015. Smith, Alan P. (1974). "Bud Temperature in Relation to Nyctinastic Leaf Movement in an Andean Giant Rosette Plant". Biotropica. 6 (4): 263–266...
- to 1+1⁄4 in) across. Like those of many other legumes, the leaves are nyctinastic; that is, they have "sleep" movements, closing at night.[citation needed]...
- touch response of the sensitive plant Mimosa pudica. Sleep movements (nyctinastic movements) are controlled by the circadian clock and light signal transduction...
- impoundment of ice-nucleating polysaccharide fluids (a natural anti-freeze) Nyctinastic leaf movement (the leaves close when it gets cold) At altitudes below...