More on plant consciousness

[Kulapavana]

<TABLE><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>Synopsis: shows for the first time that plants can "chatter" with one another,</TD></TR><TR><TD> </TD><TD vAlign=top>Source: Live Science</TD></TR><TR><TD> </TD><TD vAlign=top>Published: September 29, 2006 Author: Jeanna Bryner</TD></TR><TR><TD> </TD><TD vAlign=top></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

 

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It may look like a benign spaghetti noodle, but a bizarre parasitic plant has some cunning moves. When the stringy dodder plant emerges from the earth, it sniffs out a plant victim in the first known example of an amazing form of plant communication.

Then it sucks the life out of the other plant.

Considered an agricultural pest, the dodder relies solely on other plants to survive and infests a variety of crops, including tomatoes, carrots and alfalfa, earning it a spot on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Top Ten Weeds List.

Now, scientists from Pennsylvania Statue University have discovered the parasitic weed can sense airborne chemicals released by host plants and then steer in that direction. The finding, detailed in the Sept. 29 issue of the journal Science, shows for the first time that plants can "chatter" with one another, helping to resolve a decades-long debate about whether volatile chemicals are involved in plant-to-plant interactions.

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[Yogesh from za]

I have seen a nature documentary where Plants of the same species communicate with each other. This is how it happens.

 

There was a certain shrub/tree that goats use to feed on. The leaves of this shrub/tree is very nurishing but as soon as the goats start to feeding on it, it starts sending chemical signals to other bush from the same species and immediately the other shrub/trees start to produce chemicals that makes the leaves turn bitter. It must be some sort of defense or survival technique.

 

These chemicals signals are carried by the wind.

 

This is so amazing.