Professor Sam McNaughton
Vegetarians are sometimes mocked by their meat-eating peers who claim that ‘even carrots scream’ when they are being eaten. Now there is increasing evidence to suggest that this is not as far-fetched as once imagined, with studies showing that plants can recognise an attack, identify their herbivorous attacker, step up their defences against specific attack and even communicate warning to neighbouring plants that herbivore attack is imminent. The ongoing development by plants of sophisticated defence mechanisms and the adaptations of herbivores to these ramped up defences, may even be an important driver of the evolutionary process.
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