Saturday, May 11, 2013

David Ferguson — Plants use underground fungus network to send ‘distress signals’ to each other

Plants use underground fungus network to send ‘distress signals’ to each other (via Raw Story )
British researchers released a study on Thursday saying that plants can communicate with each other by using an underground network of fungi. According to the BBC, the study, published in the journal Ecology Letters, said that plants signal each other when they are under attack by aphids to that other…


5 comments:

Matt Franko said...

Hope for an outbreak of Athlete's Foot in the Congressional locker room to facilitate more coordination among humans????

Roger Erickson said...

Keep secreting more blogs, to attract the honest people that are Control Frauds natural predators.

Tom Hickey said...

Plants can cooperate and coordinate. Politicians, not so much.

paul meli said...

"Plants can cooperate and coordinate. Politicians, not so much."

They cooperate...as diseases.

Tom Hickey said...

Well, if you call a parasite-host relationship as cooperation.