Sunbathers should pack a pea plant next time they go to the beach, suggests Henry Gee, to warn them that damaging ultraviolet light is in the air.
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Gee, H. Enough to make you tendrils curl. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news001005-7
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