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  • Pierrick Bru, PhD student at the Department of Plant Physiology and Umeå Plant Science Centre. Photo: Alexis Brun

    A sun protection mechanism helps plants to survive

    Just like people can get sunburned, plants can also suffer from too much sunlight. To stay healthy, they use an internal “sun protection mechanism”. Pierrick Bru, a PhD student working with Alizée Malnoë at Umeå Plant Science Centre and Umeå University, has been studying a special component of this mechanism, called qH, and has found that it is quite adaptable.