Shocking news about plant communication
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Shocking news about plant communication
Detection of electrical signaling between tomato plants raises interesting questions
https://phys.org/news/2020-07-electrical-tomato.html
https://phys.org/news/2020-07-electrical-tomato.html
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Re: Shocking news about plant communication
Interesting! I've known for years that trees communicate and remember seeing experiments about beans' musical preferences (they love classical!) I bet if we could just listen that our lawns & gardens are probably pretty chatty!!
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- bower
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Re: Shocking news about plant communication
That explains a lot... 

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Re: Shocking news about plant communication
I wonder if tomatoes talk to trees, and the trees talk to future generations of tomatoes, and so on so that they have a lot of information about previous tomatoes you've grown.
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