Articles for tag: botany, mycorrhizal networks, plant communication, Plant Signaling

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How Plants Communicate: A Hidden World of Connections

Suhail Ahmed

  Walk through a forest or past a city park, and it looks like nothing much is happening: just leaves, trunks, and maybe a breeze. Yet beneath that quiet surface, plants are trading warnings, sharing resources, and even manipulating insects in ways that sound closer to espionage than ecology. For much of scientific history, we ...

How Plants “Talk” Through Underground Fungal Networks

Suhail Ahmed

Walk through a quiet forest and you’re surrounded by conversations you can’t hear, signals sliding through the soil like whispered news. The storytellers are fungi, threading microscopic fibers through roots to connect shrubs, grasses, and towering trees. For decades, ecologists suspected this hidden web existed; now, careful experiments and new imaging tools are revealing how ...