Plants communicate through their roots

Plants use roots to monitor “of conversation with their neighbours, says a study arguing that the form of plant communication is unique.

The study has found that plants that occurred in a dense environment release chemicals to the ground that drive neighbors to grow aggressively, apparently to avoid shadow.

“If we have a problem with our neighbours, we need to move”, said Velemir Ninkovic, an ecologist from the University of Agricultural Science in Uppsala and research leader.

Previously, scientists have shown that when plant leaves are affected to hide from their neighbors' wings they begin to change the growth strategy, reports the Guardian”, Periscope broadcast.

This study is published in the magazine <x0los One”, focused on corn seeds that tend to grow in a dense environment. Ninkovic and his colleagues simulated a plant's touch by pressing leaves for a minute each day with a cosmetic brush.

When they removed the plant and established a new one, they found that the new plant also diverted its resources to grow more leaves and roots.

The possibility that plants communicate has repeatedly surfaced as a strange idea in the 1980s was suggested that trees send electrical impulses called V-vales, when their neighbors broke up./Periscopi/