{"id":134998,"date":"2025-08-22T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134998"},"modified":"2025-08-22T04:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:00:09","slug":"study-reveals-how-corn-has-evolved-to-sense-and-respond-to-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134998","title":{"rendered":"Study reveals how corn has evolved to sense and respond to environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostCorn communicates with its neighbours by releasing a gas that prompts nearby plants to alter their soil, a new study has found.<br \/>\nAnd when corn is densely planted, that can boost defences against pests and predation. But emission of the volatile gas \u2013 called linalool \u2013 can also reduce maize growth.<br \/>\nThe international team of scientists who discovered this mechanism says it offers clues on how the release of linalool could be optimised to combat pests and increase yield.<br \/>\nThe researchers from&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3322624\/study-reveals-how-corn-has-evolved-sense-and-respond-environment?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostCorn communicates with its neighbours by releasing a gas that prompts nearby plants to alter their soil, a new study has found. And when&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134998"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}