Category: Amazing Plants
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Rub Your Houseplants The Right Way To Keep Them Healthier
Botanists have discovered that gently rubbing the foliage between a thumb and forefinger helps to activate plants' defence mechanisms, helping to improve their ability to resist disease.
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The Attack Of The Ancient Walking Plants!
Researchers in France have discovered a strange new type of movement in plants – tiny spores that walk and jump
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Plants Anticipate Attacks… And Prepare!
Plants can eavesdrop on herbivore cues to mount a defensive response even before any plant is attacked.
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Orchids’ Multifarious Floral Mimicry
We show that the species from these two distantly related families are often more similar in floral colour and shape than expected by chance and propose that a system of multifarious floral mimicry
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Are Veggies In Your Refrigerator Plotting Their Revenge?
“It means that post-harvest vegetables were more ‘alive‘ than we might have imagined,” she says.
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Plants’ Mutual Defense Agreement
Plants use underground fungal networks to warn their neighbours of aphid attack
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Scientists Turn To Plants For Novel Morphing Materials
New method for producing composite materials from a variety of materials that adopt a pre-programmed shape autonomously.
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Plants Offer Designers Model To Trap Bedbugs
A material designed to mimic the hooked hairs found on leaves could help trap and control bedbugs.
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Plants Speak About Their Future. Audibly
We have identified that plants respond to sound and they make their own sounds
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Inner World of Carnivorous Plants
Virtual Fly-Into Carnivorous Plants: You WILL be digested!