A team of scientists from Saitama University, led by Masatsugu Toyota, has been able to document for the first time how plants communicate with each other to alert themselves to threats such as pests and environmental stress.This discovery, which combines chemical, physical and optical signals, could dramatically change our understanding of plant ecosystems and their ability to defend.The plants use a complex language of chemical signals to warn…
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A team of scientists from Saitama University, led by Masatsugu Toyota, has been able to document for the first time how plants communicate with each other to alert themselves to threats such as pests and environmental stress.This discovery, which combines chemical, physical and optical signals, could dramatically change our understanding of plant ecosystems and their ability to defend.The plants use a complex language of chemical signals to warn…