Can a plant remember?
This may sound more like a line from a poem than a scientific enquiry.
But new analysis suggests that plants can pass on climate adaptation tips to their offspring.
From devastating floods to rising temperatures, the climate crisis is changing natural habitats all over the world.
To survive, many plants have been forced to quickly adapt, new research published in the Trends in Plant Science journal indicates.
They then transmit these new traits on to their offspring, says Federico Martinelli, a plant geneticist at the University of Florence.
“One day I thought [about] how the living style and experience of a person can affect his or her gametes [reproductive cells] transmitting molecular marks of their life into their children,” he explains.
“Immediately I thought that even more epigenetic marks must be transmitted in plants, being that plants are sessile [fixed in one place] organisms that are subjected to many more environmental stresses than animals during their life.”
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Cosmic Consciousness is the creator and sustainer of the Universe. It is what most people from all religions call “GOD”.
P.S.: When I was forced off the road while I was riding my motorcycle in 1987 by a person in a work van with no side windows, I had an experience that put me in the Cosmic Consciousness and that gave me my perspective of where we come from and where we go to in the end. I am actually looking forward to leaving my body and being with my wife again. I died and came back, but did not want to come back but the Cosmic Consciousness had more work for me to do. Now I know what my jos is: to write a book that brings all the people together again when everyone knows we are all Human Beings and should never fight and never have wars and basically we all depend upon each other. I thank Stephan very much for all he does to bring us together and show us the “BAD VIBES” that are keeping us from being REAL HUMAN BEINGS and supporting each other!