A quiet grassland can feel still, but it is never silent. Every leaf, flower, and root releases tiny scent molecules that drift through the air.

Imagine walking through a field of crops and hearing high-pitched clicks emanating from the plants. While this may sound like science fiction, it’s a reality that scientists are now studying. These ...

Researchers have cracked the code of plant-to-fungi communication in a new study. Using baker's yeast, the researchers discovered that the plant hormone strigolactone (SL) activates fungal genes and ...

How do the different parts of an adult plant communicate with each other when it suffers an injury, is waterlogged, burnt or exposed to environmental stress? Today we can answer this question thanks ...

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Plants exchange adaptive information, helping them to adjust to environmental challenges. Salt stress in plants, caused by soil salinity, often results in water loss. Plants often cope with this ...

Researchers say they found evidence plants and insects can interact through sound, in Tel Aviv TEL AVIV (Reuters) -There is evidence that plants and insects interact through sound, researchers at Tel ...

For the study, Lumba and her fellow researchers investigated why and how fungi respond to SLs. Eighty percent of plants rely on this symbiotic relationship, and enhancing the interaction with ...