And just like humans, it appears not
all plants speak the same language.
Not exact matches
Experiments in 2014 on sagebrush showed some
plants spoke a
language dominated by camphor compounds, while others emitted more thujone, coincidentally the
same chemical suspected to be responsible for the hallucinogenic effects of absinthe.
«All of these nematodes
speak the
same chemical
language,» through the use of compounds called ascarosides, said study co-author Frank Schroeder, a research scientist at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) for
Plant Research and adjunct assistant professor in Cornell's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.