Plants communicate with other organisms by releasing volatile organic compounds into their environment through their flowers, leaves, and roots. These signaling molecules attract pollinators, repel ...
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Plants Are Constantly Communicating, and Biodiversity Shapes the Message
Learn how plants communicate through chemical signals, and why losing biodiversity can disrupt these hidden communication ...
Plants do not stay silent. New research shows how plant diversity changes smell based communication across ecosystems.
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The more we study forests, the more it seems like plants might be cooperating and talking to each other
To the naked eye, a forest is a quiet place, and the trees are the quietest. However, researchers like Dr. Richard Karban, a formally trained ecologist and member of the UC Davis Entomology Department ...
Female moths avoid laying eggs on stressed plants that emit ultrasonic sounds. Instead, they choose silent, healthy plants.
Researchers who manipulate lignin, a molecular fiber that allows plants to grow tall and transport water, unexpectedly discovered its synthesis has more far-reaching effects on plant development than ...
Paco Calvo, a researcher at Spain’s University of Murcia, is on a mission. According to New Scientist, he’s attempting to build a solid scientific framework for understanding “plant neurobiology,” ...
Vesna Bacheva, a postdoctoral associate in CROPPS, tests part of a prototype system designed to detect a stress response in a gene-encoded reporter plant. Credit: Cornell University Vesna Bacheva, a ...
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the University of Kiel have provided experimental evidence showing that reducing plant species diversity alters plant chemical signals ...
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