As it turns out, plants chat among themselves. Japanese researchers have discovered how, also suggesting they even manage to defend themselves through airborne compounds, as shown in groundbreaking real-time footage.
A study, published in Nature Communications in October 2023, revealed that plants are surrounded by a fine mist of airborne compounds that they use to communicate and protect themselves.
Despite a mechanism that has been known by scientists since the 1980s, detecting them in over 80 plant species since then, it is only now that actual footage has captured how plants receive and respond to these aerial alarms, thanks to a team of Japanese researchers.
