Before learning to listen...
The Marialuisa of Goenkale had a great habit of talking to plants, thinking that they would grow healthier. However, he did not use the right language. Because plants do not hear, but that does not mean that they are not able to communicate. Not only do they speak the language of chemistry, but as they investigate they discover a rich and sophisticated language. Through volatile chemical compounds, plants call the "bodyguards" who will defend against insects that feed on them, warn of the dangers they run and are able to differentiate their relatives.
But since they do not understand our words, we have not always been able to understand the language of plants. To begin with, saying that they said something has been considered until very recently contemptible: The first significant discoveries about plant communication date back to the 1980s, and the shift in focus, which almost occurred yesterday morning.
As with plants, the route has been similar to that of bacteria and fungi. They also use the chemical words, the compounds they emit at certain times to indicate and know their location and quantity. These chemical signals allow them to develop group behaviors and, for example, initiate an infectious process. Some of these compounds are universal and other species specific.
And researchers have not escaped the practical advantages of understanding these languages. Strategies for the generation of new antibiotics, specific fungicides that do not develop resistance... Communicating is no longer the curiosity of some marine bacteria.
As it is a vision of the anthropocentric world, it has cost us a little to imagine plants, fungi and bacteria as communicators; being a vision of the anthropocentric world, we have not had any work to imagine a trick in our benefit that language we begin to hear.
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