The Secret Language of Plant Stress Signals When plants face stress, they activate a signaling cascade involving multiple molecules like hydrogen peroxide and plant hormones such as salicylic acid, ...

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.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the University of Kiel have provided experimental evidence ...

The trees are talking to each other. But it doesn’t happen all the time. They appear to be able to pass down their ecological knowledge from older trees to younger trees, in the event of a solar ...

Signals transmitted via leaves can warn neighboring plants of stressful events, making the group collectively more resilient ...

Scroll down for a transcription of this episode. Trees aren’t just competing for sunlight and soil—they’re also looking out for one another. Scientist Suzanne Simard reveals the unexpected ways trees ...

You’ve probably heard the stories: that through an intricate network of underground fungi, trees send nutrients and warning signals back and forth to one another. In Pulitzer Prize-wining novels, New ...

Marking trees are important hotspots of communication for cheetahs: Here they exchange information with and about other cheetahs via scent marks, urine and scats. A team has now shown that several ...