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Library exhibit to showcase plant-human communication | Cornell Chronicle

Plants can be engineered or instrumented to send alerts—texts or color changes—when stressed, enabling direct human-plant communication and smarter agricultural responses.

Film

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I Wanted Them to Be Weird: Director John McPhail on Mixing Genres and Encouraging Actors in "Grow" | Interviews | Roger Ebert

A charming family film about Charlie, a girl who communicates with plants, who revitalizes her aunt's struggling coastal farm amid an annual pumpkin competition.

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2 months ago

Closely sown corn plants communicate to defend themselves

Corn plants whisper messages to each other to defend against their enemies. When they are very closely planted, they release a volatile substance that induces their neighbors to produce chemicals that halt their growth, but activate their defenses against plagues. And that's not all they also modify the soil's microbiota, leaving a defensive legacy that preps the immune system of the next generation of plants.

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Library exhibit to showcase plant-human communication | Cornell Chronicle

I Wanted Them to Be Weird: Director John McPhail on Mixing Genres and Encouraging Actors in "Grow" | Interviews | Roger Ebert

Closely sown corn plants communicate to defend themselves

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