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Japanese Scientists Show How Plants Fetch & Respond To Aerial Alarms

Japanese scientists got to know how plants talk in toto. In their deliberate research, they brought into validity this meaningful thesis. It remains a testament to their distinctive scientific analysis. They clambered rapidly opening a secret before the contemporary generation. To ably capture the communication, they used an air pump attached to a container of leaves and caterpillars, and another box with Arabidopsis thaliana, a common weed from the mustard family. 

Plants are surrounded by a fine mist of airborne compounds that they manage to communicate. These compounds are like smells and warn plants of danger nearby. The video recorded by the able Japanese scientists revealed how plants receive and respond to these aerial alarms. 

This significant achievement, guided by molecular biologist Masatsugu Toyota from Saitama University, was said to have been published in the prominent journal Nature Communications. The team observed how an undamaged plant responded to volatile organic compounds released by the plants harmed by insects or otherwise. 

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