Dr Jordan DowellTranscript43m
When walking into nature, we often hear the water flowing in a river, birds singing, or another wild animal expressing itself. But we don’t often realise that there is a very vibrant but inaudible community out there constantly exchanging valuable information for their survival: plants.
Plants secretly talk to each other through their roots as well as invisible volatile compounds. They inform each other of potential threats, such as an infection or an insect, as well as collaborate on how to share resources. They even developed dialects. But sometimes collaboration may convert into competition for resources, at which point communicating with each other might not be in plants' best interest.
Jordan Dowell, a postdoctoral researcher of Plant Chemical Ecology & Comparative Biochemistry at the University of California Davis, will join us in the garden to translate the fascinating language plants adopt every day.
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