Researchers identify mechanism plant cells use to receive messages from neighbors
Thursday, June 18, 2015 - 06:00
in Biology & Nature
In the age of tablet computers and smart phones, it's easy to feel inundated and overloaded by information. But on a cellular level, this bombardment is business as usual, and a team of University of Washington researchers has identified a mechanism that some plant cells use to receive complex and contradictory messages from their neighbors.