Website review: NWO - Clever plants chat over their...
starspirit discovered this in Botany
•20 reviews since Sep 25, 2007
botany, plants, science
•nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOA_76QJ5P_Eng
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starspirit discovered 7 months ago- Recent research from Vidi researcher Josef Stuefer at the Radboud University Nijmegen reveals that plants have their own chat systems that they can use to warn each other. Therefore plants are not boring and passive organisms that just stand there waiting to be cut off or eaten up. Many plants form internal communications networks and are able to exchange information efficiently.
- Nomi1 rated 2 months ago
- Interesting
- havenheart rated 3 months ago
- I always knew that they were hearing me and responding to me!!!
- kbstumbler rated 6 months ago
- And we think we're advanced...
- DarkLigress rated 6 months ago
- Plant Internet...
- Erinmyhead rated 6 months ago
- Is this where that expression about hearing something through the grapevine came from?
- Teneo rated 7 months ago
- Plants "chatting" over networks...very cool
- WakeUpNow rated 8 months ago
- Recent research from Vidi researcher Josef Stuefer at the Radboud University Nijmegen reveals that plants have their own chat systems that they can use to warn each other. Therefore plants are not boring and passive organisms that just stand there waiting to be cut off or eaten up. Many plants form internal communications networks and are able to exchange information efficiently.
- hopewind rated 10 months ago
- I'd seen a documentary that showed how acacia trees communicate among one another by releasing chemicals into the air to warn the other trees when one is being nibbled upon by an animal such as a giraffe. When the trees "smell" this alarm signal, they all start to release poisons into their leaves. It takes a while for the poisons to saturate the leaves, but the giraffe has to finish eating before then. The documentary also talked about how some plants-- I forget which-- send chemical distress signals into the air that will attract the attention of stinging insects that will defend the plant against the offending herbivore. This article talks about another kind of plant communication: plants that have shared roots such as strawberries and clover use these roots to send signals to one another to warn about herbivores so they can chemically defend themselves. It's just like the acacia, although I guess strawberries are on a hardware intranet and the acacia use a wireless network!
