{"id":1827,"date":"2018-05-04T00:39:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T16:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite-dev.hkust.edu.hk\/?page_id=1827"},"modified":"2018-05-04T00:41:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T16:41:58","slug":"plants-talk-to-each-other-through-their-roots","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/?page_id=1827","title":{"rendered":"PLANTS &#8216;TALK TO&#8217; EACH OTHER THROUGH THEIR ROOTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plants use their roots to \u201clisten in\u201d on their neighbours, according to research that adds to evidence that plants have their own unique forms of communication.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that plants in a crowded environment secrete chemicals into the soil that prompt their neighbours to grow more aggressively, presumably to avoid being left in the shade&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2018\/may\/02\/plants-talk-to-each-other-through-their-roots?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">continue reading at <\/a><em>The Guardian.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plants use their roots to \u201clisten in\u201d on their neighbours, according to research that adds to evidence that plants have their own unique forms of communication. The study found that plants in a crowded environment secrete chemicals into the soil that prompt their neighbours to grow more aggressively, presumably to avoid being left in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/?page_id=1827\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PLANTS &#8216;TALK TO&#8217; EACH OTHER THROUGH THEIR ROOTS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1830,"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1827\/revisions\/1830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apcf-infosite.hkust.edu.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}