The secret life of plants ?

 

Although, unlike animals, plants do not have a nervous system or brain, they do respond to stimuli.  

Plants can feel what's happening in their surroundings; they can feel our touch or when patted, and they rapidly respond to the stimuli or the way they are being treated. According to Dr. Olivier Van Aken, a researcher at the University of Western Australia, plants can even feel the stimuli of water droplets falling on leaves. Moreover, they can feel the casting shadows, insects walking around the leaves, and the blowing winds "he added".

It's been said that plants can feel the vibrations of sound and can pass them on to distant animals for a response. Although there is no evidence as such. Researchers have found a change in thousands of genes when sprayed with water droplets, which basically lasted for half an hour or so. Quite interesting, right?

It would be amazing to know that plants do communicate. Yes, you heard it right. Let's dive right into this topic. Unlike animals, plants are unable to move. So how do they communicate with each other?

 

Well, interestingly, plants use their roots to communicate with each other. The roots of plants have a fungal association called mycorrhizal association that connects individual plants together to provide the nutrients needed. There is an underground network where the roots of plants and fungi communicate with each other through a thread-like structure called mycelium. The relationship is called mutualism, where fungi provide nutrients like phosphorus, carbon, nitrogen,
 etc., and plants provide food to fungi.