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Plants Can Tell When They’re Being Eaten
Mordrn Farmer ^
| October 20, 2014
| Dan Nosowitz
Posted on 10/27/2014 4:24:30 AM PDT by maddog55
Eating a leaf off a plant may not kill it, but that doesn't mean the plant likes it. The newest study to examine the intelligence (or at least behavior) of plants finds that plants can tell when they're being eaten -- and send out defenses to stop it from happening.
Weve been hearing for decades about the complex intelligence of plants; last years excellent New Yorker piece is a good place to start, if you want to learn more about the subject. But a new study, conducted by researchers at the University of Missouri, managed to figure out one new important element: plants can tell when theyre being eaten, and they dont like it.
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10/27/2014 4:58:05 AM PDT
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DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: maddog55
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10/27/2014 4:58:25 AM PDT
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cripplecreek
(You can't half ass conservatism.)
To: Gaffer
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10/27/2014 4:59:31 AM PDT
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Salamander
(People will stare. Make it worth their while.)
To: PenguinM
OMG...spare the children!
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10/27/2014 5:02:55 AM PDT
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Salamander
(People will stare. Make it worth their while.)
To: cripplecreek
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10/27/2014 5:03:35 AM PDT
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Salamander
(People will stare. Make it worth their while.)
To: maddog55
I believe I'll have me a bacon sammich for breakfast:
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10/27/2014 5:05:16 AM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. Eccl 12 V.13)
To: maddog55
“Feed me Seamore.”
5.56mm
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posted on
10/27/2014 5:05:27 AM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: maddog55
How much of the NIH budget was used to study this idiocy? /rhetorical question snark
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posted on
10/27/2014 5:10:01 AM PDT
by
VTenigma
(The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
To: Salamander; Slings and Arrows
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posted on
10/27/2014 5:10:27 AM PDT
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shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: sitetest
My broccoli loves garlic. My potatoes love butter and sour cream. I’m just here to make them happy!!
To: Gaffer
You mean like Mr. Potato Head??
To: Mich Patriot
What we’ve always suspected: Vegetarians HATE plants!
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posted on
10/27/2014 5:13:59 AM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: bert
We knew about this back in the '70s.
Read the book, "The Secret Life of Plants".
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10/27/2014 5:14:10 AM PDT
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Mogger
(Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
To: shibumi
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posted on
10/27/2014 5:14:48 AM PDT
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Salamander
(People will stare. Make it worth their while.)
To: Sacajaweau
I hear PETA and I think back to the South Park PETA Episode. Hilarious.
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10/27/2014 5:16:47 AM PDT
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Gaffer
To: Mogger
Yup.
And I’ve been annoying vegans with it, since then.
:D
Remember the Kirlian photography thing?
It showed them desperately reaching out to their phantom, ripped away parts.
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10/27/2014 5:16:49 AM PDT
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Salamander
(People will stare. Make it worth their while.)
To: Mogger
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posted on
10/27/2014 5:20:31 AM PDT
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Salamander
(People will stare. Make it worth their while.)
To: maddog55
This is why I eat meat. The animal is very dead when I eat it. The whole story makes me think of the apple trees in the Wizard of Oz.
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10/27/2014 5:21:39 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Stop wishing for a perfect world. You may get it. Who will you talk to then?)
To: BunnySlippers
We need an acronym for this..akin to PETA.
My first take: PED.... People for Eating Dirt
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10/27/2014 5:25:30 AM PDT
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ken5050
(When the GOP takes the Senate, it will tie Obama's hands for two years. How will he play golf?)
To: Salamander; All
Why is it always for the children?! ;)
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10/27/2014 5:26:28 AM PDT
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PenguinM
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