Bioelectrical synchronization of Picea abies during a solar eclipse

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.241786
This is a remarkable article:
"Abstract
Regular light–dark cycles greatly affect organisms, and events like eclipses induce distinctive physiological and behavioural shifts. While well documented in animals, plant behaviour during eclipses remains largely unexplored. Here, we monitored multiple spruce trees to assess their individual and collective bioelectrical responses to a solar eclipse. Trees anticipated the eclipse, synchronizing their bioelectrical behaviour hours in advance. Older trees displayed greater anticipatory behaviour with early time-asymmetry and entropy increases. These results reveal a relationship between trees, shaped by individual age and physiology as well as collective history. This highlights the significance of synchrony in plants, offering new insights into coordinated behaviours in nature.
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It seemingly suggests that trees anticipated(!) a solar eclipse.  This appeared in a reputable journal, but..
In the article there is the remarkable quote:
"2.4. Quantum field theory theoretical analysis
In our theoretical analysis we use the quantum field theory (QFT) formalism. The motivations and benefits are the following. Trees are open, and hence dissipative, systems, continuously exchanging (releasing and receiving) matter and energy in various forms with their environment. Moreover, they are aging systems, the origin in the time of their life cannot be moved and their time evolution (the arrow of time) cannot be inverted. All this means that there is ‘breakdown’ of the symmetry under time translation and time reversal, respectively, which is also reflected in equation (2.6)."
Quantum field theory applied to trees?