“…through transitional light flecks in canopies, changing cloudiness, diurnal periods of light and dusk) (Schulze and Hall, 1982;Küppers et al, 1997); the sudden drop in solar irradiance during a solar eclipse provides a challenge for investigating its related impacts on plant behaviour. Observations have shown that a drop of sap flow velocity in a number of plants was related to solar eclipses (Ladefoged, 1963;Fernandez et al, 1996;Morecroft et al, 2000;Häberle et al, 2001). Developmental processes, such as transient aberrations in the chromosomal structure of root meristems and delayed seed germination, have been also ascribed to the impact of an eclipse (Sathaiah et al, 1984;Kumar et al, 1984).…”