Japanese scientists showed the conversation of plants., plants, chemistry

But communication between plants occurs at the level of chemical compounds. And scientists managed to record this “dialogue”.

Molecular biologists from Saitama University in Japan were able to document communication between plants. All representatives of the flora communicate with their neighbors by releasing volatile compounds that cannot be seen by the human eye. Therefore, to make the process clear, botanists “tinted” two types of plants and began to observe them through a fluorescent microscope.

During the experiment, scientists damaged nearby plants or planted dangerous caterpillars on them. Within a few minutes, the damaged plant began to release organic volatile substances, to which the neighboring plant reacted.

"Intact plants clearly perceived the messages of their wounded neighbors. They responded with bursts of calcium signals that ran through their elongated leaves," says the scientific article in Science Alert.

Images taken with a fluorescence microscope

Scientists claim that such information exchange occurs in nature all the time. Flora also has its own unique “language” of communication, which plants resort to mainly in times of danger.