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New critique debunks claim that trees can sense a solar eclipse

"Granted, "[p]lants have extensive and well established mechanisms of communication, with that of volatiles being the most well studied and understood," he added. "There is also growing recognition that root exudates play a role in plant-plant interactions, though this is only now being deeply investigated. Nothing else, communication through mychorriza, has withstood independent investigation."

Science

Agriculture

fromCornell Chronicle

3 months ago

Library exhibit to showcase plant-human communication | Cornell Chronicle

Plants can be engineered or instrumented to send alerts—texts or color changes—when stressed, enabling direct human-plant communication and smarter agricultural responses.

Film

fromRoger Ebert

4 months ago

I Wanted Them to Be Weird: Director John McPhail on Mixing Genres and Encouraging Actors in "Grow" | Interviews | Roger Ebert

A charming family film about Charlie, a girl who communicates with plants, who revitalizes her aunt's struggling coastal farm amid an annual pumpkin competition.

fromenglish.elpais.com

5 months ago

Closely sown corn plants communicate to defend themselves

Corn plants whisper messages to each other to defend against their enemies. When they are very closely planted, they release a volatile substance that induces their neighbors to produce chemicals that halt their growth, but activate their defenses against plagues. And that's not all they also modify the soil's microbiota, leaving a defensive legacy that preps the immune system of the next generation of plants.