Report: When a leaf gets eaten, it warns other leaves by using some of the same signals as animals.

[Deleted member 11093]

Plants communicate distress using their own kind of nervous system

Plants may lack brains, but they have a nervous system, of sorts. And now, plant biologists have discovered that when a leaf gets eaten, it warns other leaves by using some of the same signals as animals. The new work is starting to unravel a long-standing mystery about how different parts of a plant communicate with one another.

Animal nerve cells talk to each other with the aid of an amino acid called glutamate, which—after being released by an excited nerve cell—helps set off a wave of calcium ions in adjacent cells. The wave travels down the next nerve cell, which relays a signal to the next one in line, enabling long-distance communication.

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https://www.sciencemag.org/news/201...-distress-using-their-own-kind-nervous-system

 

[Septimus Prime]

Okay, so what is the other leaf supposed to do about it?

 

[Deleted member 11426]

Now I feel like a monster.

 

[stan423321]

Okay, so what is the other leaf supposed to do about it?

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Maybe it can poison itself to ensure MAD.

 

[sabrina]

People are going to use this to say "take that, vegans!"

but, like, it's still way better for the environment to cut down on meat consumption

Okay, so what is the other leaf supposed to do about it?

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Depends on the species. Some grasses add plastic-like beads to their edges to become sharper and hopefully fend off pests.

 

[danowat]

So the happening was right? damn.

 

[Keyser S]

 

[Wackamole]

This was discussed a week ago if i remember correctly.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

I think we had this thread.
And it's not as new as people think. We've know that some plants can use chemical signaling but this is about what chemicals plants use.

to quote Jurassic Park

I mean, you have plants in this building that are poisonous, you picked them because they look good, but these are aggressive living things that have no idea what century they're in, and they'll defend themselves, violently if necessary

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[FUME5]

They discovered how plant cells communicate?

Cool.

 

[lacer]

vegans annihilated

 

[Carvel]

Interesting, but ...

Okay, so what is the other leaf supposed to do about it?

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Thoughts and prayers?

 

[Perzeval]

I wonder if plants ever signal knock knock jokes to each other?

 

[Hambulance]

I am a leaf on the wind.

 

[Fairy Godmother]

Dupe: https://www.resetera.com/threads/vi...-to-have-own-version-of-nervous-system.73037/