{"id":119737,"date":"2021-02-18T16:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T00:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/plants-talk-plants-listen-heres-how"},"modified":"2021-02-18T16:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T00:22:17","slug":"plants-talk-plants-listen-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/plants-talk-plants-listen-heres-how","title":{"rendered":"Plants Talk. Plants Listen. Here\u2019s How"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/plants-talk-plants-listen-heres-how3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a leafy plant is under attack, it doesn\u2019t sit quietly. Back in 1983, two scientists, Jack Schultz and Ian Baldwin, reported that young maple saplings getting bitten by insects release a spurt of chemicals that float through the air. You and I wouldn\u2019t notice, but these chemicals carry a slight odor that neighboring plants can detect. It\u2019s a little like a silent scream.<\/p>\n<p>These chemicals come from the injured parts of the plant and seem to be an alarm. Maybe not an intentional warning like, \u201cWatch Out! Aphid Attack!\u201d but more like a simple distress call like, \u201cAphids! Aphids! Aphids!\u201d or, \u201cAttack! Attack!\u201d The chemicals the plants pump through the air are a blend of organic molecules \u2014 alcohols, aldehydes, ketones and esters \u2014 known as volatile organic compounds, VOCs for short.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Animals bark, sing, growl and chat. Plants, one would think, just sit there. But it turns out that plants bark, growl and chat as well. Here\u2019s how they do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a leafy plant is under attack, it doesn\u2019t sit quietly. Back in 1983, two scientists, Jack Schultz and Ian Baldwin, reported that young maple saplings getting bitten by insects release a spurt of chemicals that float through the air. You and I wouldn\u2019t notice, but these chemicals carry a slight odor that neighboring plants [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119737","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\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}