Using newly generated "optogenetic" tobacco plants, research teams from the University of Würzburg’s Departments of Plant Physiology and Neurophysiology have investigated how plants process external signals.
When it comes to survival, plants have a huge disadvantage compared to many other living organisms: they cannot simply change their location if predators or pathogens attack them or the environmental conditions change to their disadvantage.
For this reason, plants have developed different strategies with which they react to such attacks. Such reactions are usually triggered by certain signals from the environment. ...
