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In scientific experiments in some of these advanced countries, some tobacco plants have been injected with cells from jellyfish. Jellyfish are very unique animals. Whenever they experience certain conditions - they glow. Hoping to obtain similar responses from plants, scientists have injected some tobacco plants with the glowing biological systems from these jellyfish. These tobacco plants were then placed under some stress full conditions. The results of these tests were encouraging. When these tobacco plants were subjected to extreme cold - they began to glow.
Now, if these experiments continue to produce these very encouraging results, the future of agriculture will greatly revolutionized. How?
All sorts of means have been devised to control how crops are grown - especially for mass human consumption. Many times, we get news of serious crop failures. Plant diseases, severe climatic conditions and the like have wiped out whole plantations. Many times, remedies were devised that proved to do more harm than good. If we can listen to what our plants have to say - then maybe these sorts of disasters can be prevented or minimized in the future.
For example, when crops are being decimated by plant pests and diseases, they are sometimes sprayed with insecticides. Sometimes, they are sprayed with too much insecticide - causing more harm than the plant pests and diseases could ever do. However, if we could get our plants to “talk”, whenever too much insecticide is being applied - the plants could let it be known. If crops are being over-watered or over-fertilized, the plants could “tell” us.
At the present time, humans cannot eat such plants. Their primary role, therefore, would have to be that of “spokesmen” for the rest of the farm or plantation. These plants would be planted at strategic locations - to prevent accidental reaping.
In addition to listening to plants, it would also seem that we can “talk” to them. During some other experiments, it was noticed that plants that have some kinds of music played to them grow better and produce more fruits that plants that don’t get such music.
So, even though we are still very primitive in our knowledge of plant communication, there are very definite indications that communicating with plants is possible. The benefits to humanity are obvious - increased food supplies, less hunger and more opportunities in agriculture. Even though it is in the distant future - at the rate that mankind’s knowledge is accelerating, it seems certain that we will, one day, be able to communicate with plants.
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