Can Plants Get Sunburned?
Plants need sunlight to live, but they also need to block the sun's more harmful rays. Plants can't put on sunscreen or find shade, so how do they avoid getting a gnarly sunburn? This episode is brought to you by Hover: https://www.hover.com/scishow Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters—Alexander Wadsworth, Kevin Bealer, Mark Terrio-Cameron, KatieMarie Magnone, Patrick Merrithew, Charles Southerland, Fatima Iqbal, Sultan Alkhulaifi, Tim Curwick, Scott Satovsky Jr, Philippe von Bergen, Bella Nash, Chris Peters, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Charles George ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.life.illinois.edu/govindjee/encyc/encarta.htm http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=2550 http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/Biology/botf99/photo/l2inature.htm http://spot.colorado.edu/~basey/bluer.htm http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/000527289090156X http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S098194281400357X https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC160736/ https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/environmental/leaf-scald-in-plants.htm https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20070538 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/9332112/Sunburnt-leaves-the-myth-debunked.html http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/gardens-gardening/your-garden/help-for-the-home-gardener/advice-tips-resources/pests-and-problems/environmental/scorch.aspx https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/presspacs/2014/acs-presspac-october-29-2014/why-plants-dont-get-sunburn.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080927083528/http://www.uri.edu/ce/factsheets/sheets/leafscorch.html http://ac.els-cdn.com/S0031942298000624/1-s2.0-S0031942298000624-main.pdf?_tid=14b8ca80-5ac2-11e7-85ea-00000aab0f02&acdnat=1498517707_74caac2aaa8cf9fcfe79c5dbb7669ec5 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3730951/
