An incredible discovery has been made by a team of Japanese scientists, who have captured real time footage of plants "talking" to each other. According to the Science Alert, plants are enclosed in a fine mist of air molecules used for communications. These substances smell like a smell and warn plants of danger around them. The Japanese scientists' video shows how plants receive and react to these alarms from the sky. The journal Nature Communications published this important achievement, led by molecular biologist Masatsugu Toyota of the University of Saitama.
To capture the communication, these scientists used an air pump connected to a container of leaves and caterpillars, and another box with Arabidopsis thaliana, a common weed from the mustard family.
Science Alert said that caterpillars were allowed to feed on leaves cut from tomato plants and Arabidopsis thaliana, and the researchers captured the responses of a second, intact, insect-free Arabidopsis plant to those danger cues.
The researchers had added a biosensor that glowed green and calcium ions were detected. The human cell also uses calcium signals to communicate.
The undamaged plants received the messages of their wounded neighbors, and responded with bursts of calcium signals that rippled across an outstretched leaf as seen in the video.
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