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HUGE BELL CURVE. “But other fungi have much more exotic sex lives, and have a more complex mating-type determining system in which there are literally thousands and thousands and thousands of different mating types.” https://lnkd.in/dn4azG7 View in LinkedIn

CHEMICAL COMMUNICATION. "The amount of chemical communication that takes place within and between plants is complex. More than 20 different groups of molecules having communicatory functions have currently been identified, and up to 100,000 different substances, known as secondary metabolites, are actively used in the root zone." https://lnkd.in/d3eE69g View in LinkedIn

“PLANTS COMMUNICATE by releasing volatile organic compounds picked up by their neighbors, and through the root mycorrhizal system. In both cases, neighboring plants respond in minutes to these signals. Could we learn to tap into these communication highways?” https://lnkd.in/duy7ajr View in LinkedIn

PLANTS ARE SMART. "Though plants possess nothing even remotely like brains, they can nevertheless communicate, measure time, and even use camouflage. They may not be thinking in a way that we'd recognize, but our chlorophyll-saturated pals are certainly doing a lot more than sitting around splitting water molecules." https://lnkd.in/dDKNfWm View in LinkedIn

INFORMATION MOLECULES. "These mRNAs can control the levels of other proteins, and the status of such levels contain information for local tissues, for example, about the general physical condition of the plant, the season, or the presence of dangerous enemies." https://lnkd.in/d3eE69g View in LinkedIn

"THE MOVEMENT PROTEIN allows the mRNA to enter the plasmodesmata tunnel and thereby move into the phloem flow (phloem is a specific plant tissue important for nutrition transport). Once the mRNA has entered this transport system, it can reach all parts of the plant relatively rapidly." https://lnkd.in/d3eE69g View in LinkedIn

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DISTANCE COMMUNICATION. "For long-distance signalling, so-called 'movement proteins’ perform an important role in plants. Movement proteins convey information bearing RNA from the stem and leaves to the remote roots and flowers." https://lnkd.in/d3eE69g View in LinkedIn