> Join Royal Society Research Fellow Dr Jim Fouracre to explore what makes plant biology so unique, and delve into his research on a key question in plant development: how do plants know when to move from one life stage to the next? After all, plants go through difficult phases too.
One of the questions I didn’t think to ask, and came across it (and was wowed) a couple of years ago in [Enrico Coen’s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Coen) (Darwin Medal recipient) lovely book, _Cells to Civilizations_, was how do plants know the time of day and time of year.
This quick lecture goes over another question I didn’t think to ask: how do they figure out how to transition from a juvenile to an adult.
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> Join Royal Society Research Fellow Dr Jim Fouracre to explore what makes plant biology so unique, and delve into his research on a key question in plant development: how do plants know when to move from one life stage to the next? After all, plants go through difficult phases too.
One of the questions I didn’t think to ask, and came across it (and was wowed) a couple of years ago in [Enrico Coen’s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Coen) (Darwin Medal recipient) lovely book, _Cells to Civilizations_, was how do plants know the time of day and time of year.
This quick lecture goes over another question I didn’t think to ask: how do they figure out how to transition from a juvenile to an adult.
[Skip to 19:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiHqYTuOOs0&t=1162s) for the answer
[Skip to 24:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiHqYTuOOs0&t=1491s) for the ongoing research into this trait’s evolution.