– it Turns out that each of them, whether it’s grass on the lawn or a flower, can create and conduct electrical signals, – said Marina Greenberg, member of the Institute of biology and Biomedicine, Nizhny Novgorod state University. Is a reaction to a different threat: heat, cold, mechanical damage…
Plants in adverse conditions, trying to “lay low”, reducing the intensity of physiological processes. Electrical signals just provide this braking action, and also include the synthesis of protective substances. The impetus for the plant applies a rate of only a few centimeters per minute. Scientists have obtained evidence that, for example, wheat, peas, tobacco are able to distinguish between adverse factors, forming in each case individual signals. Understanding of this mechanism, it is possible to breed new varieties with minimum yield losses. Articles on Nizhny Novgorod research biologists published in the journal of the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
