Venus flytraps (Dionaea muscipula) are some of the most ferocious plants on Earth.
that spreads along and between the plant's cells. Although plants have no nervous system, these quick bursts of electrical activity are eerily similar to the electrical impulses of our nerve cells firing.
Abdul Manan Dar and Eleni Stavrinidou with a Venus flytrap hooked up to their newly made multi-electrode array. Unexpectedly, though, the team found some electrical signals spontaneously originated from unstimulated hairs, as the trap was closing., but"we don't know yet why this happens or what the function is."
But further studies, using the newly fashioned devices, will be needed to figure out what message the flytrap's unstimulated sensory hairs are sending, and how electrical signals propagate in plants.
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