Plant communication

Plants are constantly in a process of sharing, talking, communicating among them self, in our surroundings.  

Fundamentally they have intelligence. 

Recent researches have shown very supportive proof regarding this 
communication phenomenon 
in 
plants.

Plants: The oxygen provider: Plants are an integral part of our 'respiratory-cycle', a major player in the give and take mechanism of O2 and CO2, which is so much important for the balance, a must for the existence of all aerobic animals...

 

Plants: Reducing carbon to carbohydrate: Green plants are the only major trappers of solar radiation, the primary energy source on earth; and then converting them into chemical form.

So, green plants are the 'Primary Producers', again a major player of 'Food Cycle' and 'Energy Cycle' ..

 

Plant: communication: As LUCA is the same for plants as well as the animals, so the plants are as ancient as we in the our evolutionary journey on this planet. That makes a strong point in the favor of existence of 'some possible communication-skills' among them self and with their neighbors; possibly these plants may be having, which is less explored so far and less understood too.Even some recent studies have indicated so:

#Report 1

Plants do communicate and kin relationship has a bearing: Newly published research in Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows that kin have distinct advantages when it comes to plant communication, just as "the ability of many of many animals to recognize kin has allowed them to evolve diverse cooperative behaviors,"

Ecologist Richard Karban of the UC Davis Department
of Entomology studying kin relationship in sagebrush

says lead researcher and ecologist Richard Karban, a professor in the UC Davis Department of Entomology.

This ability is less well studied for plants until now.

http://phys.org/news/2013-02-communicateand-kin-relationship.html

February 14, 2013

#Report 2

Gabe Popkin

National Geographic News

Published April 15, 2013

Trees Call for Help—And Now Scientists Can Understand Team identifies the sounds made by drought-stressed trees.

A tree stands alone in the drought-stricken
Salmon-Challis National Forest, Idaho,
in an undated picture.

Photograph by Pete Ryan, National Geographic

When drought hits, trees can suffer—a process that makes sounds. Now, scientists may have found the key to understanding these cries for help.

In the lab, a team of French scientists has captured the ultrasonic noise made by bubbles forming inside water-stressed trees. Because trees also make noises that aren't related to drought impacts, scientists hadn't before been able to discern which sounds are most worrisome. (Watch a video: Drought 101.)

"With this experiment we start to understand the origin of acoustic events in trees," said Alexandre Ponomarenko, a physicist at Grenoble University in France, whose team conducted the research.

This discovery could help scientists figure out when trees are parched and need emergency watering, added Ponomarenko, who presented his team's results last month at an American Physical Society meeting in Baltimore, Maryland.

Plant-human transaction: 

In our own lives....we have found much solace with these plants....be it any hour of the day....perhaps due some 'Communication Message' showered on our own senses....

The Bodhi Tree, also known as Bo (from the Sinhalese Bo), was a large and very old Sacred Fig tree (Ficus religiosa) located in Bodh Gaya (about 100 km (62 mi) from Patna in the Indian state of Bihar), under which Siddhartha Gautama, the spiritual teacher later known as Gautama Buddha, is said to have achieved enlightenment, or Bodhi. In religious iconography, the Bodhi tree is recognizable by its heart-shaped leaves, which are usually prominently displayed.

For young as well as old; plantation is a concern of both generations.

In our evenings of life, when shades are long, plant serve as succor, for the day dreaming....

On a hot sunny day, there is a cool and  fragrant invitation from these creatures, we call plants.

Even in night time, tender tendril is there to convey things un-said in the day hours.

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