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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.
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Plants Can Recognize and Communicate With Relatives
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| rocketranger on Jun 26, 07 0 Trends 2,582 Comments |
I guess this is Organic networking.
Wow plants recognize Kin.
Amazing.
ALL plants????
Impressive.
Ok gardeners ID those plant families again & farmers for crops. |
rocketranger on Jun 26, 07 0 Trends 2,582 Comments
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| NEXT by Ramla on Jun 29, 07 30 Trends 34 Comments |
And plants can also communicate with humans, and respond to noise. Now I have been trying to prove this to my family for some time! They are mildly amused at my attempts at making the plant shake its leaves just by asking it politely to demonstrate this, as a proof of their communicative ability. |
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