[HN Gopher] The eccentric pioneers of vegetable electricity
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The eccentric pioneers of vegetable electricity
Author : prismatic
Score : 16 points
Date : 2023-04-21 04:52 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.bbc.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.bbc.com)
| TedDoesntTalk wrote:
| Related: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36384396/
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| " Most plants form underground relationships with fungi. These
| relationships are mutually beneficial. The plants and fungi
| share, trade, and distribute resources between themselves, their
| neighbors, and their offspring. Plants employ diverse methods to
| detect and respond to their environment and the production of
| electric signals is one of these methods. It would be favorable
| to a plant's survival and the survival of their neighbors, if
| this plant could transmit and share the information these
| electrical signals contain. Possible avenues of transmission
| exist in the roots, and the fungi these roots are in contact
| with. If a fungal mass is in contact with the roots of multiple
| plants, it could propagate electrical signals throughout the
| plant network. We found that electric signals were reliably
| transmitted from one plant to another via fungal pathways upon
| the induction of a wound response. Our findings provide evidence
| that mechanical input can be communicated between plant species
| and opens the door to testing how this information can affect
| plant and fungal physiology."
| detrites wrote:
| TIL plants and fungi built their own internet.
| tough wrote:
| Yeah, Star trek faster than light time travel is -funghi-
| spore based
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