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Prince Charles once said that he had a chance to talk with plants – and they answered him. For such a statement by Charles subjected to ridicule, however, recent discoveries by researchers confirm: the statements of the prince are justified.
Long-term memory is inherent in plants
Dr. Monica Galiano from the University of Western Australia led the research, the results of which were published by the magazine “Oecologia”. The object of research was the bashful mimosa – perennial herbaceous plant. Together with her colleagues Monica threw from a height the flowers of this plant on a cushioning surface. For mimosa, such falls were not dangerous. Scientists chose this plant for their experiments not by chance: mimosa bashful has the ability to fold leaves in a special way, if she is in danger, so her reaction was very easy watch.
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Scientists needed to find out two points. First: will they be able to understand plants that this process does not threaten them? And the second: if yes, can mimosa remember this for a long time?
Having survived several falls, the plants began to respond correctly. and remember that such “adventures” are not dangerous for them.
Scientists used different plants mimosa bashful and also varied over time. For example, some of the plants do not bothered twenty-eight days after the first experiment. At mimosa still remembered the lesson learned, since she didn’t react to fall. But she responded to other stimuli with her in the usual way.
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Plants think without a brain
While plants have neither a brain nor a nervous system, inherent in other, more highly organized organisms, scientists put forward a number of alternative hypotheses explaining this phenomenon. TO For example, the Economist magazine posted an article in which the following assumption is made: information may take the form electrical signals and transmitted through a nutrient exchange system substances in plants.
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Plants can feel
In 1996, a discovery was made, thanks to which many began to talk with houseplants. Cleve Baxter worked at The CIA also dealt with lie detectors. He took two dracaena plants and the leaves of one of them connected to this device. Another dracaena he ordered his assistant to be trampled. After this polygraph, attached to the plant – the witness of violence, issued a schedule, which serves as an indicator of human fear.
The experience continued. Different people came into the laboratory, including and the assistant who destroyed the plant. The polygraph did not fix any Dracaena reactions to the rest, however, when a person appeared, trampled bush, the device again showed lines that pointed to feeling of fear. Apparently, the plant recognized the “killer”. Baxter also found that his green subject was happy after how they watered it, and even knew how to read human thoughts.
Plants read our minds
Baxter kept pondering what unusual experiment to do. him yet. He thought about burning the leaves of the plant to track reaction. But as soon as Baxter got such an idea, a polygraph showed that the plant was scared.
The experiments of the famous polygraph examiner were repeated by other researchers, in including Russian scientist Alexander Dubrov and Frenchman Marcel Vogel.
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Vogel experiment with plants
This famous scientist has worked for IBM for 27 years as a senior research assistant. During this period he has patented more than a hundred various inventions. Including Vogel was engaged in research plants. He made amazing discoveries and proved that plants can read our thoughts and are capable of telepathy on a large distance. The following pattern also emerged: the more people pays attention to the plant, the better it perceives his thoughts.
Vogel also observed how the plant responds to its “fellow” injured: set fire to, cut leaves or even tear out land. The researcher found that plants can even predict our actions, that is, they can look into the future.
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Three identical plants
But the student of England held her own, moderately cruel, but very demonstration experiment. She placed three identical room plants in favorable conditions for them by placing them on the windowsill and caring for them also equally. However one She spoke hate to the plant every day, to another Declared love, and the third simply did not notice. Look at video of what came of it.
By the way, some modern advanced scientists are engaged in plant breeding, just by persuading them to change the way it is it is necessary for a person, for example, to bear fruit larger and sweeter berries. Therefore, a person should reconsider his attitude for a long time. not only to the animal, but to the plant world, and indeed to think about how much he knows and understands about the environment, considering himself king of nature …
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Plant time
