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A Plant That Can Smell
BlueCup writes "The question of how a dodder finds a host plant has puzzled researchers. Many thought it simply grew in a random direction, with discovery of a plant to attack being a chance encounter. But the researchers led by Consuelo M. De Moraes found that if they placed tomato plants near a germinating dodder, the parasite headed for the tomato 80 percent of the time. And when they put scent chemicals from a tomato on rubber, 73 percent of the dodder seedlings headed that way. Turns out, it sniffs out it's prey."
But the researchers led by Consuelo M. De Moraes found that if they placed tomato plants near a germinating dodder, the parasite headed for the tomato 80 percent of the time. And when they put scent chemicals from a tomato on rubber, 73 percent of the dodder seedlings headed that way. Turns out, it sniffs out it's prey.
See, now I would have thought that it would have been the tomatoes that made the first strike...
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
My dodder has no nose.
How does it smell?
Terrible!
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
Well Mark, you of all people should know that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
The Flying Speghetti Monster is seeking out holy tomato sauce! I believe I belieeeeeve!
Table-ized A.I.
Um, wouldn't this be "while my guitar gently creeps"?
Table-ized A.I.
Well, of course it's slowly, it takes a very long time to say anything in Old Entish.
That which we call a dodder by any other word would smell tomatoes.
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