{"id":139935,"date":"2022-05-28T22:23:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T03:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/biologists-may-have-solved-a-30-year-old-mystery-on-why-touch-stresses-plants-out"},"modified":"2022-05-28T22:23:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T03:23:51","slug":"biologists-may-have-solved-a-30-year-old-mystery-on-why-touch-stresses-plants-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/biologists-may-have-solved-a-30-year-old-mystery-on-why-touch-stresses-plants-out","title":{"rendered":"Biologists May Have Solved a 30-Year-Old Mystery on Why Touch Stresses Plants Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biologists-may-have-solved-a-30-year-old-mystery-on-why-touch-stresses-plants-out2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/plants-really-do-respond-to-the-way-we-touch-them-scientists-reveal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">long known<\/a> that touching plants can set off a stress reaction in them \u2013 but until now it hasn\u2019t been exactly clear how that worked at a molecular level, something that a new study hopes to shed light on.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers behind the study have identified certain genetic keys inside plants that lead to two separate signaling pathways, explaining why plants react so strongly to being touched.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding more about how this process works at a fundamental level could help researchers in a variety of different areas, from improving plant health to getting higher harvest yields from the same crop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have long known that touching plants can set off a stress reaction in them \u2013 but until now it hasn\u2019t been exactly clear how that worked at a molecular level, something that a new study hopes to shed light on. The researchers behind the study have identified certain genetic keys inside plants that lead [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139935","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}