Scientists shine a spotlight on the secret conversations of plants with first ever real-time footage.
Go out into any garden, park or forest and you will be surrounded by a silent cacophony of conversations. Conversations between plants.The fact that plants can 'talk' has been known about for several decades. But how they can 'hear' each other has remained largely unknown. Until now.
To observe these responses firsthand, the team collected VOCs released from a group of plants fed on by caterpillars and pumped them onto undamaged neighboring plants. These neighboring plants had been engineered with a real-time fluorescence imaging system. This allowed the researchers to monitor the internal concentration of calcium ions inside the plants' cells.
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