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  3. Blazes of light reveal how plants signal danger long distances

Blazes of light reveal how plants signal danger long distances

Posted on September 18, 2018

Light in plants.

UW Madison’s Simon Gilroy has discovered that plant cells send out rather beautiful chemical signals when wounded.

Read the full article here.

Posted in NewsTagged Botany, Plants, Research, Simon Gilroy

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