Category: Plant Defense
2016 “How Plants Work” News Highlights – January
Are Plants Comfortably Numb? – Part Two
numb (adjective): “devoid of sensation; insensible” Pain in the Ash? In the previous post, I posed the question whether or not plants experienced something analogous to pain when physically wounded. I concluded that they did….depending on how one defines “pain”. At the present time, when even academic biologists are expanding…
Comfortably Numb? – When Wounded, Do Plants Experience “Pain”?
Do Plants Interact Using A Genetic “Language”?
In the Future, Will Trees Be Connected to the Internet?
How To Make A Decaf Coffee Plant
Why decaf coffee? Have you ever had a cup of really good decaf coffee? Me neither. (Probably because the decaf coffee results from chemical processing of normal coffee beans.) But why would anyone want coffee without caffeine? As illustrated by the old Gary Larson cartoon on the left, sometimes you…
Do Plants Have an Immune System?
2016 “How Plants Work” News Highlights – January
Are Plants Comfortably Numb? – Part Two

numb (adjective): “devoid of sensation; insensible” Pain in the Ash? In the previous post, I posed the question whether or not plants experienced something analogous to pain when physically wounded. I concluded that they did….depending on how one defines “pain”. At the present time, when even academic biologists are expanding…
Comfortably Numb? – When Wounded, Do Plants Experience “Pain”?
Do Plants Interact Using A Genetic “Language”?
In the Future, Will Trees Be Connected to the Internet?
How To Make A Decaf Coffee Plant

Why decaf coffee? Have you ever had a cup of really good decaf coffee? Me neither. (Probably because the decaf coffee results from chemical processing of normal coffee beans.) But why would anyone want coffee without caffeine? As illustrated by the old Gary Larson cartoon on the left, sometimes you…