Communication – Plant en Zo

Plants Talk—Just Not the Way You Think

Do plants really talk among themselves or is this all just chemistry with a bit of humanising sauce put in the mix.

Receiver discovered

Receiver discovered Plants use volatile compounds for communication. Lots is known about how these compounds are made and distributed. But how plants recognise these volatile compounds remained a mystery for a long time. Now American researchers have discovered one of these volatile receivers. That the receivers of volatile compounds in plants remained for a longContinue reading “Receiver discovered”

Touch

Touch An obstacle influences plant growth. How a plant registers touch is not completely clear. Long did researchers think plants observe touch with help of their trichomes, the hairs on a leaf. But not all plants have hairy leaves. Now a group of American, German, and Danish researchers show that the pavement cells at theContinue reading “Touch”