{"id":5805,"date":"2018-05-04T07:18:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T07:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/?p=5805"},"modified":"2018-05-04T07:26:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T07:26:27","slug":"aboveground-mechanical-stimuli-affect-belowground-plant-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/aboveground-mechanical-stimuli-affect-belowground-plant-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Aboveground Mechanical Stimuli Affect Belowground Plant Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maize plants can detect the presence of their neighbours and modify<br \/>\ntheir growth behaviour. Above ground interactions between neighboring<br \/>\nmaize plants by brief light touches affect on below-ground root-root<br \/>\ncommunication. This study urges re-interpretation of results in<br \/>\nexperiments in which plants are touched during the experiment. The<br \/>\necological significance of the observed responses still needs to be<br \/>\nfurther explored.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0195646\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id%3D10.1371\/journal.pone.0195646&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1525504058375000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGI32JC6Gh5fvTHBVvROnJxSpBoaQ\">http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/ploso<wbr \/>ne\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.<wbr \/>pone.0195646<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2018\/may\/02\/plants-talk-to-each-other-through-their-roots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2018\/may\/02\/plants-talk-to-each-other-through-their-roots&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1525504058375000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGBMt5SzAdk3p__imZg9tLwIP_msg\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sc<wbr \/>ience\/2018\/may\/02\/plants-talk-<wbr \/>to-each-other-through-their-<wbr \/>roots<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maize plants can detect the presence of their neighbours and modify their growth behaviour. Above ground interactions between neighboring maize plants by brief light touches affect on below-ground root-root communication. This study urges re-interpretation of results in experiments in which plants are touched during the experiment. The ecological significance of the observed responses still needs to be further explored. http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0195646 https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2018\/may\/02\/plants-talk-to-each-other-through-their-roots<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5807,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions\/5807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}