Racist plants "listen more closely to kin than strangers"[views:1487][posts:0]____________________________________________ [Feb 13,2013 6:06am - NEGROTIC OVERLORD ""] By the end of the seasons, herbivores had done less damage to the branches exposed to chemicals from close relatives than to those receiving signals from more distant relatives – the warning probably prompting the plants to release herbivore-deterring chemicals, says Karban. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2316...-closely-to-kin-than-strangers.html |