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And here's a short piece from the May 2018 issue of the magazine in the section we call advances, dispatches from the frontiers of science, technology, and medicine.

Watchful Plants by Erica Tenenhouse.

Plants cannot run or hide, so they need other strategies to avoid being eaten.

Some curl up their leaves. Others churn out chemicals to make themselves taste bad if they

sense animals drooling on them, chewing them up, or laying eggs on them, all shore fire

signals of an attack.

New research now shows that some flora can detect an herbivorous animal well before it launches an assault,

letting a plant mount a preemptive defense that even works against other pest species.

Snail slime is the lubricating mucus the

animals ooze as they slide along. When ecologist John Oreck of the University of

Wisconsin-Madison squirted snail slime into soil, nearby tomato plants appeared to

notice. They increased their levels of an enzyme called lypoxygenase, which is known to detect herbivores.

Oric says none of the plants were ever actually attacked. We just gave them cues that suggested an

attack was coming, and that was enough to trigger big changes in their chemistry.

Initially, Oric found this defense worked against snails. In the latest study,

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