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Plants Can Recognize and Communicate With Relatives - Science Discovery of the Day
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Researchers have found that living plants can recognize kin through their root systems. Botanists can control plant development by placing certain plants near others that will produce the desired result.
Scientists have always known that animals have the ability to tell family from strangers, allowing them to cooperate and share resources, but plants may possess similar social skills, they believe.
Susan Dudley and Amanda File of McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, report they have demonstrated for the first time that plants can recognize their kin.
This suggests that plants, though lacking cognition and memory, are capable of complex social interactions.
(news.nationalgeographic)
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