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The Complexity of Plant Communication
Within the fung network in there, there are dozens and dozens of species actually participating in these communication systems. And supplementary and auxiliary to that, you've got bacterial communities wich fore affecting the fungle populations. This isn't a kind of sort of ping, ping, ping of information. It's a huge burst of biological chemical signalling,. passing billions and billions of pieces of data across these organisms. For people who are listening and find it sorter, almost fantastical. You'd said to me, ally, our action hat. If someone had said this to you as a professional a couple of decades ago, i think i probably would have laughed, probably rolled my eyes. The idea that
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