plants

Scientists reveal fascinating connections between mice and a plant that blooms once in a hundred years

Avi Blizovsky
November 23, 2023
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Their findings highlight the importance of understanding the needs of both plants and animals to ensure the health of local ecosystems. They also overturn a previously held belief about how mice store seeds

Scientists debunk a myth: do trees really have feelings?

Avi Blizovsky
October 14, 2023
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32 plant and forest researchers from all over the world published an article in the journal Trends in Plant Science in which they examined all these claims

The bacteria that climbed a tall tree

Weizmann Institute
July 17, 2023

If humans become extinct, what will the earth look like a year later?

Science site The Conversation
June 16, 2023
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What will happen to all our stuff? What will happen to our homes, our schools, our neighborhoods, our cities? Who will feed the dog? Who will cut the grass? Although it's a common theme in movies, TV shows, and books, the end of humanity is still a strange thing to think about

A worldwide breakthrough states: plants make sounds

Tel Aviv University
April 4, 2023

Each plant and each type of distress has a characteristic, recognizable sound. The sounds of plants sound like clicks, like popcorn, at a volume similar to human speech but at frequencies above the human hearing range, and they may be picked up by various animals, such as bats, mice and insects

Research reveals what allows different plants to create an infinite variety of shapes

The Hebrew University
February 2, 2021

Each plant has special organs in different shapes; The leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds of one plant will not resemble those of another plant, even between two different tomato varieties. Now researchers from the Faculty of Agriculture of the Hebrew University in Rehovot have found out why

Things Yorami know: the multicellular conundrum

Yoram Soreq
August 28, 2020
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Two questions will occupy us in this column, both of which concern the relationship between the whole and its parts. Let's start with Nir's philosophical questioning: in the animal world (fish, reptiles, mammals and birds) we know that all the organs of the body serve the brain, without a brain the rest of the body has no right to exist. But what happens in the plant world? On which part of the tree can it be said that all the other parts serve it?