Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Plants Talk to Other Plants

http://blogs.earthsky.org/eleanorimster/plants/062639/your-plants-arent-listening-unless-youre-a-plant-too/

Kyoto researchers say that certain plants send out SOS signals to their nearby siblings when they’re getting chewed up by insects. The siblings respond by producing chemicals that attract wasps that prey on the unwanted bugs.

But how the plants figure out which of their neighbors are siblings is still a mystery.

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