This Fall Is Full of Acorns--Thanks to a 'Mast' Year
Trees can outsmart animals such as squirrels and birds by synchronizing their seed production
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Interesting article. This quote has me wondering about clipping tobacco leaves.This Fall Is Full of Acorns--Thanks to a 'Mast' Year
Trees can outsmart animals such as squirrels and birds by synchronizing their seed productionwww.scientificamerican.com
"A third intriguing possibility that researchers are still investigating is that trees are “talking” to each other via chemical signals. Scientists know that when a plant is damaged by insects, it often releases chemicals into the air that signal to its other branches and to neighboring plants that they should turn on their defenses. Similar signals could potentially help trees coordinate seed production."
I'm curious if the chemical signal released from insect damage would trigger a response through the whole tray of seedlings if only a few of the seedlings had their leaves clipped?
In theory, the jasmonate released from a clipped plant would signal neighboring plants. But those neighbors would still cast their shade on adjacent seedlings. There are certainly a lot of covert processes happening in plants. We're only recently discovering some of them.
Bob
Bob
You have a good memory!
Funny, the older I get the more I just enjoy watching them. To be able to see them out your window without watching them chow down on your garden, that's something special. Consider yourself lucky.
$5 a pound for beef or a days time processing a deer. If you have the luxury to consider that you can also consider yourself lucky. Tough call when times aren't bad.
There were two of them, a single buck can sire plenty of offspring...
$5 a pound for beef or a days time processing a deer. If you have the luxury to consider that you can also consider yourself lucky. Tough call when times aren't bad.
There were two of them, a single buck can sire plenty of offspring...
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