Month: September 2022

FRAGMENT IN NATURE. More than ever, today, we have an enormous number of studies proving how sensate plants are, how sophisticated their survival strategies are, and how very different (and yet how similar) they are from us. No brain, no nerves, no eyes, yet they can do so much. View in LinkedIn

SENSUAL PLANTS. "People have to remember that plants are complex organisms, that live rich sensual lives...a plant can see, smell, and feel," and even has a memory. Daniel Chamovitz (director of the Manna Center for Plant Bioscience, Tel Aviv University, and author of What a Plant Knows), the modern champion of the very living plant. https://lnkd.in/eVVBdJ5 View in LinkedIn

INNER LIFE OF PLANTS. "Plants are immobile. They need to see where their food is. They need to feel the weather, and they need to smell danger. And then they need to be able to integrate all of this very dynamic and changing information." https://lnkd.in/eVVBdJ5 View in LinkedIn

INNER LIFE OF PLANTS. "Just because we don’t see plants moving doesn’t mean that there’s not a very rich and dynamic world going on inside the plant." https://lnkd.in/eVVBdJ5 View in LinkedIn

OLFACTION in mammals is quite well understood, anatomically, electrophysiologically, biochemically, and genetically. View in LinkedIn

PLANT OLFACTION. We are just now starting to appreciate the pathways of plant odor detection, and how they communicate with so many species through scents and volatile molecules, to other plant species, and to pollinators and even to the enemies of their predators. View in LinkedIn

'WHAT A PLANT KNOWS', by Daniel Chemovitz. "Plants know when their fruit is ripe, when their plant neighbor has been cut by gardener's shears, or when their neighbor is being eaten by a ravenous bug; they smell it." https://lnkd.in/ebihGuY View in LinkedIn

RETHINKING PLANTS. "Who knew that a weed can smell the difference between a tomato plant and wheat, a tobacco plant can sense color, and a Venus flytrap can distinguish between the splash of a raindrop and a fly? Like so much in nature, it’s a matter of survival."" " https://lnkd.in/ea_Tqa3" " View in LinkedIn

TALKING TREES. "Plants can’t talk or make noise, but they can communicate with one another, and we’re learning more about how they do it all the time." https://lnkd.in/emhsDjP View in LinkedIn

TALKING TREES. "Thirty years ago, a study published in the journal Science revealed that poplar and maple trees release certain chemicals when attacked by insects, and that healthy trees nearby responded to these chemicals by building up anti-pest defenses." https://lnkd.in/emhsDjP View in LinkedIn