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| Technology Secret Life of Plants: Scientists Discover Plants Can Talk |
| Back in 1971, when my dear friends the late Christopher Bird and Peter Tompkins were beginning the research that resulted in their book, The Life of Plants, whenever they talked about the idea of plant communications with most biologists they were told they were out of their minds. When the book came out it got even worse. Scientific conferences hold panels telling the world Tompkins and Bird (a Harvard trained biologist) were fools at best and charlatans at worst. Every year since then research has step by step demonstrated that they were, in fact, correct. And we are only at the beginning of this journey to understand our world. Slowly we will come to understand as a culture that those policies which encourage wellness, including recognizing that all life is interconnected and interdependent, will produce better and cheaper social outcomes. Stephan A Schwartz, www.schwartzreport.net |
| The Telegraph (U.K.) |
| Plants that respond to sound and "click" to communicate with each other? It's not science fiction, according to research released by the University of Western Australia. "Everyone knows that plants react to light, and scientists also know that plants use volatile chemicals to communicate with each other: for instance, when danger - such as a herbivore - approaches," UWA researcher Monica Gagliano said. Secret life of plants: Scientists discover plants can talk .. "I was working one day in my herb garden and started to wonder if maybe plants were also sensitive to sounds - why not? - so I decided as a scientist to find out." Dr Gagliano, along with professor Daniel Robert at the University of Bristol in the UK and professor Stefano Mancuso at the University of Florence in Italy, found that the roots of young plants emitted and reacted to ... |
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