Plants can distinguish when touch starts and stops, study suggests

ScienceDaily
May 31, 2023, 2:19 pm182 pts
Even without nerves, plants can sense when something touches them and when it lets go, a study has found. In a set of experiments, individual plant cells responded to the touch of a very fine glass rod by sending slow waves of calcium signals to other plant cells, and when that pressure was released, they sent…

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