We've read how plants communicate with each other by chemicals, and we'...  ...of other animals, but this takes the cake. Tomato plants have shown the ability to protect themselves from...  ...University of Wisconsin in Madison treated tomato plants with methyl jasmonate (MeJA),...

Trees are connected to other trees around them by...  ...rom tree to tree through the fungus, in a kind of communication that can take hours to detect and centuries for h...  ...transfer of chemicals, we wouldn’t call it communication , but new research led by Dr. Suzanne Simard of th...  ...Read more abou...

If you think it's weird that plants can "talk" to one another, he...  ...work of underground fungus! Many plants have a chemical armoury that they deploy when aph...  ...s. The team grew sets of five broad bean plants , allowing three...