Electrical signalling plays a pivotal role in how plants perceive and respond to their environment. Rapid electrical impulses, including action potentials (APs) and slower variation potentials (VPs), ...

Vesna Bacheva, a postdoctoral associate in CROPPS, tests part of a prototype system designed to detect a stress response in a gene-encoded reporter plant. Credit: Cornell University Vesna Bacheva, a ...

Is it true that plants communicate by sending chemical signals through the air?

Plants do not stay silent. New research shows how plant diversity changes smell based communication across ecosystems.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the University of Kiel have provided experimental evidence ...