{"id":109922,"date":"2020-07-14T05:03:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T12:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/plants-can-secretly-send-underground-electrical-signals-heres-how-they-do-it"},"modified":"2020-07-14T05:03:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T12:03:43","slug":"plants-can-secretly-send-underground-electrical-signals-heres-how-they-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/plants-can-secretly-send-underground-electrical-signals-heres-how-they-do-it","title":{"rendered":"Plants Can Secretly Send Underground Electrical Signals. Here\u2019s How They Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/plants-can-secretly-send-underground-electrical-signals-heres-how-they-do-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study offers a better understanding of the hidden network of underground electrical signals being transmitted from plant to plant \u2013 a network that has previously been shown to use the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mycorrhiza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mycorrhizal fungi<\/a> in soil as a sort of electrical circuit.<\/p>\n<p>Through a combination of physical experiments and mathematical models based on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Differential_equation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">differential equations<\/a>, researchers explored how this electrical signalling works, though it\u2019s not clear yet exactly what messages plants might want to transmit to each other.<\/p>\n<p>The work builds on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S1567539418300501\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previous experiments<\/a> by the same team looking at how this subterranean messaging service functions, using electrical stimulation as a way of testing how signals are carried even when plants aren\u2019t in the same soil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study offers a better understanding of the hidden network of underground electrical signals being transmitted from plant to plant \u2013 a network that has previously been shown to use the Mycorrhizal fungi in soil as a sort of electrical circuit. Through a combination of physical experiments and mathematical models based on differential equations, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}