This topic spark my mind when I was taking a class this semester about gardening and how plants can communicate with each other. The student as well as the professor gave different examples. One of the example he gave us was that Cleve Backster was studying the plants using the polygraph when someone destroy plant A on front of Plant B that it was in a desk, plant B became a witness of plant A destruction, then they brought to the room 6 different individuals and one of them was the plant destroyer, the plant react to the one that had destroy the plant. I thought these guys are loosing it in this class, but for my surprise I was able to find more information related to this subject. Then I thought this is a way of communication (well you might think I'm loosing it too.)and I decide to continue my search for craziness, I mean more information and came across this information. How plants can communicate using the mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid), this is more into the cellular level. Hope you enjoy the article:
http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2014/08/081514-cals-talkingplants.html
That is really cool. I never considered the thought plants might communicate with one another like that. Seriously that is awesome. The video of the parasitic plants was kind of creepy but it was still neat to watch.
ReplyDeleteInteresting... Normally, I would say this is absurd but I guess there is information to back it up. I'm still skeptical though. You never know.
ReplyDeleteOn a side note though, do you think grass does the same thing when we mow it? Like, they witness us chopping all their brethren up with a huge rotating blade and react? I don't know. As stated before, I don't know if I buy into it or not.