Hey, Watch Out for That Spider Mite
Updated 1:52 PM ET August 3, 2000
LONDON (Reuters) - The language may be different but plants, like
humans, talk to each other and warn of impending danger,
according to a study.
New research by scientists at Kyoto University in Japan,
published in the science journal Nature, describes how lima bean
plants send out distress signals to protect themselves and warn
their neighbors of an impending attack by spider mites.
Instead of words and sentences, the lima bean plants emit
chemicals to get their message across.
"These plants can prepare defenses against the spider mites in
advance," Junji Takabayashi and his colleagues said in the
Nature report.
The chemicals make the plants less susceptible to the spider
mites. They also attract the mites' natural predators to help the
plants them fight them off.
At the same time the chemicals can activate genes in neighboring
plants to produce the same chemicals which act as an insect
repellent.
"These findings on airborne information transferred among plants
are important for understanding...interactions in ecosystems as
well as for developing new methods for plant protection," the
scientists added.
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