Left-handed plants

I read an interesting article that says most climbing plants are left handed. That’s the result of a study that discovered 95% of vines in 75 locations across the world twined anti-clockwise.

Lead scientist behind the research Angela Moles, an evolutionary biologist at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney said: "All [natural] proteins on Earth are left-handed molecules with a tendency to twist in one direction. In plants, the cell skeletons are made of proteins. If the proteins have a tendency to twist to the left, so might the plant stems."

Other research has shown that 94 per cent of spiral sea shells twist to the left.

You can read the full article here: http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/2163/most-plants-are-left-handed-study-says