California, USA – A scientist have demonstrated that plants communicate with each other. The plants of the same family sends chemical signals to mutually alert each other about the arrival of predators.

According to U.S. expert entomologist Richard Karban, members of the plant kingdom can communicate with each other. “They are able to contact each other more sophisticated than we can imagine,” he said

Plants communicate with each other by sending chemical messages in the air, their messages to report the arrival of predators. According to him, when a neighboring plant receives the message, it strengthens its defenses against locusts, caterpillars or other invaders.

Professor Karban,  University of California, said it proved that there is a mode of “conversation” among some thorny bushes native to the western United States. He cut branches and stems of potted shrubs, such as it was attacked by locusts. He replanted the shrubs damaged and measured the levels of predator attacks on their neighbors.

The journal Ecology Letters reports that the leaves of plants similar to those damaged are less affected by attacks of locusts. The plants assaulted in some way, advise their neighbors of the same family to activate their defenses. The Professor would have already identified the chemical particles from the air by which plants communicate.

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