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According to research from scientists at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, plants communicate distress signals through their roots.
Damaged plants communicate their state to surrounding healthy plants, presumably allowing the other plants to adapt to stress.
Researchers used pea plants for the test and found that a plant exposed to drought condition reacted accordingly, but so did the surrounding plants, although they were not experiencing drought. Even unrelated plants got the signal, suggesting that the signals are not species-specific. This research confirms various past tests that found plants communicate by chemical and other means (Asaf Shtull-Trauring, "Israeli Study Shows: Plants 'Talk' Through the Roots," Haaretz.com, March 11, 2012).
God made a fantastic creation with amazing mechanisms for coping with difficult conditions. Plant communication is just one facet of those mechanisms.
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