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Researchers have discovered plants under stress produce their own Aspirin in the form of a gas. Whilst farmers may be able to use this discovery to accurately predit problems (eg: drought or pest) they researchers believe the gas is a form of intra-plant communication alerting fellow plants of impending danger and triggering the production of Aspirin to alleviate the problem.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7624521.stm
 
I know Douglas Firs 'communicate'. When attacked by pests they create chemicals to fight the pests. They also send out other chemicals into the air. When other Douglas Firs 'smell' this chemical they start producing anti-pest chemicals.

Also, that 'fresh cut grass' smell? That's a chemical signal as well. But not to other plants. The signal is to certain predators, parasitic wasps and that. It's saying 'I'm hurt. Come and kill the thing that's hurting me.'
 
rgraham666 said:
I know Douglas Firs 'communicate'. When attacked by pests they create chemicals to fight the pests. They also send out other chemicals into the air. When other Douglas Firs 'smell' this chemical they start producing anti-pest chemicals.

Also, that 'fresh cut grass' smell? That's a chemical signal as well. But not to other plants. The signal is to certain predators, parasitic wasps and that. It's saying 'I'm hurt. Come and kill the thing that's hurting me.'
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Interesting, Rob... one learns somethng new. Love that fresh mown lawn smell.
 
The grass smell also help the predators find the plant that's injured. Only reason we humans can smell it is when we injure the whole lawn. ;)
 
It's silly to believe plants aren't living things, capable of defending themselves. We have such a bias. Natives in every culture understood that there was life and divinity it ALL of it. Everything.
 
this is not new information. I read it in a SciAm article in high school and that was a looooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnng time ago.
 
voluptuary_manque said:
this is not new information. I read it in a SciAm article in high school and that was a looooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnng time ago.
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Animals do the same thing. When I was little my granddad had a farm and the cows would produce a gas to defend themselves.

It was terrible.

:rose:
 
Selena_Kitt said:
It's silly to believe plants aren't living things, capable of defending themselves. We have such a bias. Natives in every culture understood that there was life and divinity it ALL of it. Everything.
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thank you. :)
 
There's a scientist, Cleve Backster, who hooked up plants to a polygraph starting back in the late '60s. When he thought about harming them (either cutting or burning them) their reaction registered on the polygraph. When they were subjected to other negative stimuli (cold, lack of water) they did the same and it was measured. A group of people who were growing marijuana heard of his research and hooked their plants up to polygraphs too. The polygraph reacted to the plants' stress minutes before the police came and raided the place. :D You can read more about Backster's research here:

http://www.primaryperception.com/bio/
 
epiphany65 said:
There's a scientist, Cleve Backster, who hooked up plants to a polygraph starting back in the late '60s. When he thought about harming them (either cutting or burning them) their reaction registered on the polygraph. When they were subjected to other negative stimuli (cold, lack of water) they did the same and it was measured. A group of people who were growing marijuana heard of his research and hooked their plants up to polygraphs too. The polygraph reacted to the plants' stress minutes before the police came and raided the place. :D You can read more about Backster's research here:

http://www.primaryperception.com/bio/
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Well my tomatos can scream their little heads off, but they are still going in the salad with the rest of my "victims"!
 
To the excessively tender-hearted:

The only reason you are alive today is because thousands of other things are dead. Learn to live with it!

Any up for a big pot of braised muskox? It's guaranteed organic. :D
 
voluptuary_manque said:
To the excessively tender-hearted:

The only reason you are alive today is because thousands of other things are dead. Learn to live with it!

Any up for a big pot of braised muskox? It's guaranteed organic. :D
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OMG VM, you're a cereal killer aren't you!
 
epiphany65 said:
There's a scientist, Cleve Backster, who hooked up plants to a polygraph starting back in the late '60s. When he thought about harming them (either cutting or burning them) their reaction registered on the polygraph. When they were subjected to other negative stimuli (cold, lack of water) they did the same and it was measured. A group of people who were growing marijuana heard of his research and hooked their plants up to polygraphs too. The polygraph reacted to the plants' stress minutes before the police came and raided the place. :D You can read more about Backster's research here:

http://www.primaryperception.com/bio/
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Mythbusters did an episode on that
 
We're floating in a sea of chemicals that different organisms give off to communicate with each other. The air is just full of them. The soil too.

That fresh-mown lawn smell? Those are coumarins. The same things that are in strawberries that give them the strawberry taste. Flower aromas are screaming to bees and moths to come fuck them and fertilize them, and other plants are spewing chemical toxins into the air telling predators to stay away. Your apples and bananas and most fruits sitting in the kitchen are giving off ethylene to ripen each other, the same stuff we make polyethykene plastic out of, as well as nitrous oxides, the gas that helps give men erections.

Not only do plants signal one another through the air, but they engage in chemical warfare too. The horse chestnut secretes (or secreted. They're almost all gone now) a toxin that kills the roots of other plants that try to grow near it. Milkweed sap is toxic to most bugs except for Monarch butterfly caterpillars, and pyrethrum and fleabane are natural insecticides.

Mexican yam has a chemical in it that's very close to the steroid estrogen. What's it doing there? No one has any idea. Nor does anyone know why plants produce substances that make human beings high, what possible evolutionary purpose they serve, why a chemical produced by a plant should affect a mammal's brain. Except in the case of the coffee, tea, tobacco, poppy and coca, which obviously have been selectively cultivated by human beings just for their drug content.
 
dr_mabeuse said:
We're floating in a sea of chemicals that different organisms give off to communicate with each other. The air is just full of them. The soil too.

That fresh-mown lawn smell? Those are coumarins. The same things that are in strawberries that give them the strawberry taste. Flower aromas are screaming to bees and moths to come fuck them and fertilize them, and other plants are spewing chemical toxins into the air telling predators to stay away. Your apples and bananas and most fruits sitting in the kitchen are giving off ethylene to ripen each other, the same stuff we make polyethykene plastic out of, as well as nitrous oxides, the gas that helps give men erections.

Not only do plants signal one another through the air, but they engage in chemical warfare too. The horse chestnut secretes (or secreted. They're almost all gone now) a toxin that kills the roots of other plants that try to grow near it. Milkweed sap is toxic to most bugs except for Monarch butterfly caterpillars, and pyrethrum and fleabane are natural insecticides.

Mexican yam has a chemical in it that's very close to the steroid estrogen. What's it doing there? No one has any idea. Nor does anyone know why plants produce substances that make human beings high, what possible evolutionary purpose they serve, why a chemical produced by a plant should affect a mammal's brain. Except in the case of the coffee, tea, tobacco, poppy and coca, which obviously have been selectively cultivated by human beings just for their drug content.
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God you turn me on.

:D
 
dr_mabeuse said:
We're floating in a sea of chemicals that different organisms give off to communicate with each other. The air is just full of them. The soil too.

That fresh-mown lawn smell? Those are coumarins. The same things that are in strawberries that give them the strawberry taste. Flower aromas are screaming to bees and moths to come fuck them and fertilize them, and other plants are spewing chemical toxins into the air telling predators to stay away. Your apples and bananas and most fruits sitting in the kitchen are giving off ethylene to ripen each other, the same stuff we make polyethykene plastic out of, as well as nitrous oxides, the gas that helps give men erections.

Not only do plants signal one another through the air, but they engage in chemical warfare too. The horse chestnut secretes (or secreted. They're almost all gone now) a toxin that kills the roots of other plants that try to grow near it. Milkweed sap is toxic to most bugs except for Monarch butterfly caterpillars, and pyrethrum and fleabane are natural insecticides.

Mexican yam has a chemical in it that's very close to the steroid estrogen. What's it doing there? No one has any idea. Nor does anyone know why plants produce substances that make human beings high, what possible evolutionary purpose they serve, why a chemical produced by a plant should affect a mammal's brain. Except in the case of the coffee, tea, tobacco, poppy and coca, which obviously have been selectively cultivated by human beings just for their drug content.
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You forgot the evil, manipulative Baked Potato that seduces me to smother it in butter, salt and sour cream, then flees to hide in my stomach!
 
Safe_Bet said:
You forgot the evil, manipulative Baked Potato that seduces me to smother it in butter, salt and sour cream, then flees to hide in my stomach!
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Or the spinach that insists on being bathed in white sauce and covered with a perfectly broiled halibut steak a la fioretino.
 
Don't for the danguess cesar salad . or even worse the baby killing Spring green salad.
 
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