Spring is in the air! It’s time to mow the lawn and breathe in the smell of freshly cut grass. But this pleasant springtime scent may actually be a chemical cry for help. In the latest Reactions episode, we explain how plants communicate, their chemical response to being damaged, and how bugs play a part.
Sources:
- The Secret Language of Plants
- The internet of trees: how trees talk to each other underground
- 5 Ways Plants Communicate
- How Plants Secretly Talk to Each Other
- Glutamate triggers long-distance, calcium-based plant defense signaling
- What Causes The Smell of Fresh-Cut Grass?
- Green Leaf Volatiles: A Plant’s Multifunctional Weapon against Herbivores and Pathogens
- The Hydroperoxide Lyase Branch of the Oxylipin Pathway and Green Leaf Volatiles in Plant/Insect Interaction
- The Biogeneration of Green Odour by Green Leaves and It’s PhysiologicalFunctions - Past, Present and Future
- Parasitic wasps orient to green leaf volatiles
- Prevention and/or Recovery Effects by Green Odor(s) on Fatigue and Green-odor-responsible Brain Regions as Revealed by PET
- Plant Defense Priming against Herbivores: Getting Ready for a Different Battle
- Defense Priming: An Adaptive Part of Induced Resistance
- From Tree to Shining Tree
- Humans can Discriminate more than one Trillion Olfactory Stimuli
- Molecules that amazes us
- The Biogeneration of Green Odour by Green Leaves and It’s PhysiologicalFunctions - Past, Present and Future
- Plant Volatiles as a Defense against Insect Herbivores
- Green Leaf Volatiles: A Plant’s Multifunctional Weapon against Herbivores and Pathogens
- Insects Betray Themselves in Nature to Predators by Rapid Isomerization of Green Leaf Volatiles
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