Plants Know Their Siblings

It is not fiction that sibling plants—plants grown from seeds of the same plant—can recognize each other.
Plants Know Their Siblings
When sibling plants grow next to each other, their leaves often touch and intertwine, but stranger plants grow rigidly upright and avoid touching each other. sxc.hu
Rakefet Tavor
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When sibling plants grow next to each other, their leaves often touch and intertwine, but stranger plants grow rigidly upright and avoid touching each other. (sxc.hu)
Rakefet Tavor
Rakefet Tavor
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Rakefet Tavor is a graduate of Information Systems Engineering from the Technion, with over 15 years of experience in analyzing research data in scientific journals. She currently serves as the science correspondent for Epoch Magazine in Israel.
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