1 Jun 2017

Plants dial 111 too

From Nine To Noon, 9:37 am on 1 June 2017

We've all heard of talking to plants to make them grow - but what about when they talk to each other? Harsh Bais, who's a botanist at the University of Delaware, teamed up with high school student Connor Sweeney to make the discovery that a plant will warn its neighbours of impending danger when it has been injured itself.