Publications by authors named "Yonat Mordoch"
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- Phenotypic plasticity in plants allows them to adapt to environmental stresses by perceiving and responding to cues from nearby damaged plants.
- The study tested how unstressed plants react to stress signals from drought- and osmotic-stressed neighbors through experiments with split-root systems.
- Results showed that while stressed plants closed their stomata in response to stress, unstressed neighbors adapted by eventually reopening their stomata, highlighting a new form of plant communication that could prepare them for future stresses.
Recent evidence demonstrates that plants are able not only to perceive and adaptively respond to external information but also to anticipate forthcoming hazards and stresses. Here, we tested the hypothesis that unstressed plants are able to respond to stress cues emitted from their abiotically-stressed neighbors and in turn induce stress responses in additional unstressed plants located further away from the stressed plants. Pisum sativum plants were subjected to drought while neighboring rows of five unstressed plants on both sides, with which they could exchange different cue combinations.
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