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Talking Plants: This article was very interesting. Humans and other animals like dogs and cats can communicate, but of course, we humans are the best communicators of them all. It just seems ridiculous, ludicrous that plants communicate. It seems like a fable, a fact we can laugh at. However, scientists have found that plants, like many other living organisms communicate. But they don't talk, scream, shout, interject, or exclaim. They communicate using chemicals.
I really learned a lot from this article. Animals can communicate, but I never would have thought that plants had a language of their own. Plants can communicate using chemicals which is really amazing because it's bad for plants to have chemicals on them. I think that this way plants communicate might also be a way for them to extract all of those harmful chemicals out of the plant. However, the article says that plants only do this to communicate when in danger. Do plants have a common language that they use when not specifically in danger, though?
I think this article was very fascinating. Humans and other animals communicate very loudly and a language that is received by another person extremely fast. In this article, I feel like it explained how plants talk to each other but what I still don't understand is why in this generation, scientists still can't find out how/why plants communicate with chemicals.
Sarina, why do you think that those kind of chemicals that plants communicate with are bad for them? Also, when did it say that it communicated when it was in danger? It said it mostly communicated, but not only in danger.
I completely agree with Ben, Sarina, and Justin that it is an amazing thing how plants can communicate and warn each other about incoming danger using chemicals. If we had complex systems like that in our cars, houses, or even around the world. I reaally liked this article and I learned a lot of interesting things.
I think this article was very interesting. It talked about how we think that plants are just like still decorations, when in reality, they are very sophisticated in the way they send information. I learned that just like we have language, some plants have a "chemical language" where a plant with a disease or an infested plant can send chemical compounds to help defend their neighboring plants. I thought that the experiment that scientists did where they grew two plants together and one of them was infested by the cutworm caterpillar and one that wasn't infested. What ended up happening is that both plants could defend each other better because of the chemical compounds. It is surprising to me that these plant chemical compounds are made to help the whole plant's environment, which is a reason why I think that plants live together so well. I think we could definitely use this "chemical language" to help find our diseases before they start having symptoms on us. The chemical compounds could probably help with this task because the plants need to know they have the disease before they send chemicals to help the other plants.
Ben, I really like how you wrote that plants don't communicate by talking, screaming, or shouting, but they communicate by chemicals. It makes me think of how other animals and plants other than humans could be just as smart and capable as humans, however they use different methods of accomplishing things. And it can makes a lot of sense because even though we are better at many things than plants, we still use biomimicry to simulate what plants do naturally.
I think it is fascinating that plants are able to communicate without talking (like what Ben said) but by chemicals. I would think plants have a way of communicating. I believe a lot of living organisms have a way of communicating, with probably gestures, sounds, or chemicals (in this case chemicals).
Justin, at the beginning of the article it said the cause for this chemical form of communication was when danger was coming. It did not describe anything in the actual article however about the danger part of this so I found that very interesting. Also, chemicals are bad for both plants and humans. We all know that chemicals are bad to eat. It's also bad for plants though, because it can effect the soil and the stability of the plant which might cause it to grow in a different way, possibly in a bad way. Some chemicals that are non-toxic are okay, but toxic ones can really hurt the plant. If you want more info on this you can look at this website where I found this: http://www.planetagenda.com/chemicals.htm
It is very interesting how these plants can communicate and warn each other with chemicals. We know that animals and humans can use sounds to communicate with each other, but "talking" plants are truly amazing. They (or maybe us) definitely should find out more about this topic.
I think that the article was to ambiguous. It did not give enough information, what type of plants use this communication? What gas do they release? I do think that it is very interesting how plants can communicate, but I think that the article is to broad. I did some research and found that most fruit plants are commonly infested with some type of hornworm. I am disappointed, and I hope others article will be better.
I think it is very cool that plants can communicate. This is very amazing and I want to learn a lot more about this. Do plants have conversations or do they communicate just for survival purposes? Also how do they recognize what they are saying through the chemicals? Is it what it contains in the gas?
I thought it was so interesting to find our that plants actually communicate to each other. Like Ben said it sounds like a fact that could be laughed at. It was very cool to figure out that plants care about each other. I read in this article that plants release compounds into the air to help neighboring plants. I have always thought that plants were lone wolf. One of the facts that stood out to me is that the plants communicate through chemicals.
When I first read this article, I thought it was a metaphor. I then read the whole thing. I was in SHOCK!! I understand, humans have language. Animals have their own way of communicating. But plants. Hmmm... I think that this is SO bizarre! Sure, plants can communicate, with chemicals, like Ben said. But the don't talk or run or shower or get dressed or have jobs!! Let alone warn people when storms are coming! This is one of those "science mysteries" where you doubt the idea that plants don't talk. No, I'm joking. But seriously, I am pretty sure that you don't typically see communicating plants every day!!
This article amazed me. I had no idea plants posessed the ability to use chemicals to communicate. Although they do not form relationships or make sounds it still proves that they are often underestimated. However, in my opinion this article could have given more information on how the chemicals work. Nevertheless I am extremely impressed that plants are able to protect each other using communication and chemicals.
I think it is really cool that plant have a language, chemical. Also, its very interesting that plants release compounds into the air, because those compounds can help their neighboring plants. The mystery that still stands, is how do plants receive and act. A fun fact is that when scientists fed HexVic to cutworms, it dropped their survival rate by 17%. I think that this article is very unique and fun to learn about.
The real question is whether the plants "talk" when not in danger. I do not mean chat, but talk for slighter reasons, such as changing of seasons or a pesticide of some sort. If possible, I would like to have more links about this subject on the blog. Also, if anyone finds one, could you please send it to me.
Sorry, that was me. After some research I read (on npr.org) that antelopes regularly attack/eat sagebrush. It releases the warning chemical and a nearby tobacco plant senses it. It releases a smell that wards off the antelope and saves both itself and the sagebrush. Here is the link I found: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2014/04/29/307981803/plants-talk-plants-listen-here-s-how
Wow! Who knew that plants could actually communicate with one another? This was definitely very interesting, and I would love to know more about it. I think the most interesting part was the fact that when a plant was around a sick neighbor, they could defend better against the worms.
I think it is really interesting to see that non-mobile plants can actually communicate to help each other. I think we should learn from the plants, like bio mimicry, because an invention that comes from this can be very helpful for our society. Plants always had really cool features but the one thing I thought they couldn't do was communicate like humans and animals but apparently they can. I really like what Eli said about how animals use the same technique as plants do. I think that maybe plants get their technique from mimicking how animals warn each other of danger.
Eli, when I tried to look up if there was a way plants talk when not in danger. All that came up were articles about how plants talk in danger, nothing different. This most likely means that plants don't talk without danger, or we haven't found it out yet. I do think that is very interesting though that plants might only be able to talk in times of danger.
This article was amazing! I find it amazing that plants can release chemicals into the air to help their neighbors. Although they do not talk with words they each know how one or another are feeling by the chemicals they release.
This article was amazing! I find it amazing that plants can release chemicals into the air to help their neighbors. Although they do not talk with words they each know how one or another are feeling by the chemicals they release.
Talia I think that is a good idea because if we could do the same thing as plants without walking around. But everyone would need to know the smell or the system of the gas,
Sarina, I don't think plants need to communicate when they are not in danger because plants live a symbiotic relationship with the animals around them. For example, the pitcher plant has nectar that animals eat, and the pitcher plants eat the animals' droppings. Plants also have a symbiotic relationship with insects where they get pollenated. With this symbiotic relationship between plants and their surroundings, I think plants can grow perfectly fine without communication using chemicals, because in a sense, they communicate in symbiotic relationship by attracting insects.
The chemical language of plants fascinates me. I wonder how chemicals could actually send messages. I bet it's similar to how the neurons in our body send electrical impulses that can communicate and give directions to our body part. I wonder what chemicals plants use.
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Talking Plants:
This article was very interesting. Humans and other animals like dogs and cats can communicate, but of course, we humans are the best communicators of them all. It just seems ridiculous, ludicrous that plants communicate. It seems like a fable, a fact we can laugh at. However, scientists have found that plants, like many other living organisms communicate. But they don't talk, scream, shout, interject, or exclaim. They communicate using chemicals.
I really learned a lot from this article. Animals can communicate, but I never would have thought that plants had a language of their own. Plants can communicate using chemicals which is really amazing because it's bad for plants to have chemicals on them. I think that this way plants communicate might also be a way for them to extract all of those harmful chemicals out of the plant. However, the article says that plants only do this to communicate when in danger. Do plants have a common language that they use when not specifically in danger, though?
I think this article was very fascinating. Humans and other animals communicate very loudly and a language that is received by another person extremely fast. In this article, I feel like it explained how plants talk to each other but what I still don't understand is why in this generation, scientists still can't find out how/why plants communicate with chemicals.
Sarina, why do you think that those kind of chemicals that plants communicate with are bad for them? Also, when did it say that it communicated when it was in danger? It said it mostly communicated, but not only in danger.
I completely agree with Ben, Sarina, and Justin that it is an amazing thing how plants can communicate and warn each other about incoming danger using chemicals. If we had complex systems like that in our cars, houses, or even around the world. I reaally liked this article and I learned a lot of interesting things.
I think this article was very interesting. It talked about how we think that plants are just like still decorations, when in reality, they are very sophisticated in the way they send information. I learned that just like we have language, some plants have a "chemical language" where a plant with a disease or an infested plant can send chemical compounds to help defend their neighboring plants. I thought that the experiment that scientists did where they grew two plants together and one of them was infested by the cutworm caterpillar and one that wasn't infested. What ended up happening is that both plants could defend each other better because of the chemical compounds. It is surprising to me that these plant chemical compounds are made to help the whole plant's environment, which is a reason why I think that plants live together so well. I think we could definitely use this "chemical language" to help find our diseases before they start having symptoms on us. The chemical compounds could probably help with this task because the plants need to know they have the disease before they send chemicals to help the other plants.
Ben, I really like how you wrote that plants don't communicate by talking, screaming, or shouting, but they communicate by chemicals. It makes me think of how other animals and plants other than humans could be just as smart and capable as humans, however they use different methods of accomplishing things. And it can makes a lot of sense because even though we are better at many things than plants, we still use biomimicry to simulate what plants do naturally.
I think it is fascinating that plants are able to communicate without talking (like what Ben said) but by chemicals. I would think plants have a way of communicating. I believe a lot of living organisms have a way of communicating, with probably gestures, sounds, or chemicals (in this case chemicals).
Justin, at the beginning of the article it said the cause for this chemical form of communication was when danger was coming. It did not describe anything in the actual article however about the danger part of this so I found that very interesting. Also, chemicals are bad for both plants and humans. We all know that chemicals are bad to eat. It's also bad for plants though, because it can effect the soil and the stability of the plant which might cause it to grow in a different way, possibly in a bad way. Some chemicals that are non-toxic are okay, but toxic ones can really hurt the plant. If you want more info on this you can look at this website where I found this:
http://www.planetagenda.com/chemicals.htm
It is very interesting how these plants can communicate and warn each other with chemicals. We know that animals and humans can use sounds to communicate with each other, but "talking" plants are truly amazing. They (or maybe us) definitely should find out more about this topic.
I think that the article was to ambiguous. It did not give enough information, what type of plants use this communication? What gas do they release? I do think that it is very interesting how plants can communicate, but I think that the article is to broad. I did some research and found that most fruit plants are commonly infested with some type of hornworm. I am disappointed, and I hope others article will be better.
Sarina, I am talking about the chemicals that the plants use to communicate not bad chemicals by the way.
By the way guys, I am sorry, but all of the comments I have written were Justin Y. Thanks
I think it is very cool that plants can communicate. This is very amazing and I want to learn a lot more about this. Do plants have conversations or do they communicate just for survival purposes? Also how do they recognize what they are saying through the chemicals? Is it what it contains in the gas?
I thought it was so interesting to find our that plants actually communicate to each other. Like Ben said it sounds like a fact that could be laughed at. It was very cool to figure out that plants care about each other. I read in this article that plants release compounds into the air to help neighboring plants. I have always thought that plants were lone wolf. One of the facts that stood out to me is that the plants communicate through chemicals.
When I first read this article, I thought it was a metaphor. I then read the whole thing.
I was in SHOCK!! I understand, humans have language. Animals have their own way of communicating. But plants. Hmmm... I think that this is SO bizarre! Sure, plants can communicate, with chemicals, like Ben said. But the don't talk or run or shower or get dressed or have jobs!! Let alone warn people when storms are coming! This is one of those "science mysteries" where you doubt the idea that plants don't talk. No, I'm joking. But seriously, I am pretty sure that you don't typically see communicating plants every day!!
This article amazed me. I had no idea plants posessed the ability to use chemicals to communicate. Although they do not form relationships or make sounds it still proves that they are often underestimated. However, in my opinion this article could have given more information on how the chemicals work. Nevertheless I am extremely impressed that plants are able to protect each other using communication and chemicals.
I think it is really cool that plant have a language, chemical. Also, its very interesting that plants release compounds into the air, because those compounds can help their neighboring plants. The mystery that still stands, is how do plants receive and act. A fun fact is that when scientists fed HexVic to cutworms, it dropped their survival rate by 17%. I think that this article is very unique and fun to learn about.
The real question is whether the plants "talk" when not in danger. I do not mean chat, but talk for slighter reasons, such as changing of seasons or a pesticide of some sort. If possible, I would like to have more links about this subject on the blog. Also, if anyone finds one, could you please send it to me.
Sorry, that was me. After some research I read (on npr.org) that antelopes regularly attack/eat sagebrush. It releases the warning chemical and a nearby tobacco plant senses it. It releases a smell that wards off the antelope and saves both itself and the sagebrush. Here is the link I found:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2014/04/29/307981803/plants-talk-plants-listen-here-s-how
Wow! Who knew that plants could actually communicate with one another? This was definitely very interesting, and I would love to know more about it. I think the most interesting part was the fact that when a plant was around a sick neighbor, they could defend better against the worms.
I think it is really interesting to see that non-mobile plants can actually communicate to help each other. I think we should learn from the plants, like bio mimicry, because an invention that comes from this can be very helpful for our society. Plants always had really cool features but the one thing I thought they couldn't do was communicate like humans and animals but apparently they can. I really like what Eli said about how animals use the same technique as plants do. I think that maybe plants get their technique from mimicking how animals warn each other of danger.
Eli, when I tried to look up if there was a way plants talk when not in danger. All that came up were articles about how plants talk in danger, nothing different. This most likely means that plants don't talk without danger, or we haven't found it out yet. I do think that is very interesting though that plants might only be able to talk in times of danger.
This article was amazing! I find it amazing that plants can release chemicals into the air to help their neighbors. Although they do not talk with words they each know how one or another are feeling by the chemicals they release.
This article was amazing! I find it amazing that plants can release chemicals into the air to help their neighbors. Although they do not talk with words they each know how one or another are feeling by the chemicals they release.
Talia I think that is a good idea because if we could do the same thing as plants without walking around. But everyone would need to know the smell or the system of the gas,
Sarina, I don't think plants need to communicate when they are not in danger because plants live a symbiotic relationship with the animals around them. For example, the pitcher plant has nectar that animals eat, and the pitcher plants eat the animals' droppings. Plants also have a symbiotic relationship with insects where they get pollenated. With this symbiotic relationship between plants and their surroundings, I think plants can grow perfectly fine without communication using chemicals, because in a sense, they communicate in symbiotic relationship by attracting insects.
The chemical language of plants fascinates me. I wonder how chemicals could actually send messages. I bet it's similar to how the neurons in our body send electrical impulses that can communicate and give directions to our body part. I wonder what chemicals plants use.
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