Flower Power Garden Hour 27: Plant Communication and Defense, with Dr. Richard Karban
Flower Power Garden Hour
English - October 22, 2018 11:00 - 38 minutes - 87 MB - ★★★★★ - 168 ratingsNatural Sciences Science Leisure antiques botany conservation crafts diy education flower flowers fruit garden Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Dr. Richard Karban is a researcher at UC Davis, where he is an expert in the field of plant defenses and plant-insect interactions. His studies with sagebrush and how they “communicate” to decrease herbivore predation has been groundbreaking. Plant communication has been a hotly contested discussion for the better part of a decade. Although the general consensus in the scientific community now is that plant communication DOES occur, the mechanism(s) by which this happens is not well known or agreed upon.
Watch Dr Karban’s TED-Ed talk on Plant Communication here
Check out Wired Magazine’s article on Dr Karban here
Find Dr Karban’s book Plant Sensing and Communication here
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