Posts Tagged: plant communication
Learn About Plant-Insect Interactions at this UC Davis Seminar
If you're interested in plant-insect interactions and communication, don't miss this virtual seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology...
An example of insect-plant interaction: a red-humped caterpillar, Schizura concinna, munching on a Western redbud leaf. This insect is found throughout much of the United States. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is an example of plant herbivory: Elm leaf beetles have defoliated this elm tree leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of an elm leaf beetle. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Andre Kessler: An Exciting and Innovative Researcher Working on Plant Defenses, Interactions
You won't want to miss this seminar. Chemical ecologist Andre Kessler, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell...
An adult goldenrod beetle. (Photo courtesy of Andre Kessler)
Rick Karban: Do Plants Have Personalities?
If you've been talking to your plants for years, you are not alone. But know this: plants can communicate, too. They eavesdrop, sense danger in the...
Professor Rick Karban has researched communication in sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) on the east side of the Sierra since 1995.
Christian Nansen Lab: Groundbreaking Research on Plant-to-Plant Communication
Professor Rick Karban of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, author of the landmark book, Plant Sensing and Communication...
An illustration of plant-plant communication by the Christian Nansen lab, in the Plant Methods journal
Rick Karban, UC Davis Expert on Plant Communication, Named ESA Fellow
Congrats, Rick Karban! We just received word that noted ecologist Richard “Rick” Karban, professor in the UC Davis Department of...
Karban has researched plant communication in sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) on the east side of the Sierra since 1995.