A 20-word essay about interesting phenomena in plants.

Let crops grow meat substitutes so that mutton, chicken and steak can be harvested directly from crops in the future.

The news sounds a bit absurd.

Taste, but the artificial blood products applied by a company named Sonatogen in podol, Colorado, USA have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration and are stepping up the pace of marketization.

This is the first time that the US Food and Drug Administration has approved artificial meat substitutes. It is not water that is used to irrigate meat crops, but artificial blood. In other words, this crop has the growth characteristics of mammals and needs it.

Absorb nutrients from the blood. Of course, besides blood irrigation, biological cloning technology can also be used to make crops grow meat food.

Plants can also get cancer.

Plants are like us.

You can also get cancer. After the plant is damaged, the wound will become cancerous due to the invasion of bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms, and various malignant tumors will appear, leading to body deformity and eventually death. For example, there is a kind called

Gall bees, a small insect, especially like to lay eggs in the subcutaneous tissue of oak trees, hatch into galls, destroy the tissues and cells of oak trees, and make the cells and tissues of plants cancerous after a long time.

Plants can get cancer, but they can also help people treat cancer. According to years of research by American botanists, it is found that more than 2,000 plants can treat cancer. For example, the herb Camptotheca acuminata contains an alkaloid, which has the function of inhibiting DNA synthesis, and has been refined and applied in clinic, with good anti-malignant tumor effect.

Flowers and plants can dance

There is a magical dancing grass in Yunnan. When the music starts, its leaves will jump up and down with the melody of the music. The faster the rhythm of music, the faster it jumps. When the rhythm of music slows down, it will also slow down. When the music stops, it will stop dancing. This plant named "Dancing Grass" is rare in the world.

Plants can talk.

Do plants have languages? Does it gossip?

Hilami Lulad, a young expert in plant research in Britain, has successfully developed a plant language translator-plant detector, which can clearly hear the sound of plants, put the instrument on your back, put on headphones and connect a wire of the instrument.

When the head is connected to the leaves of a plant, this wire can vibrate, and the bioelectronic translator can translate this vibration immediately, so that the sound of plant conversation can be clearly heard in the earphone, and the plant will tell people whether it is hungry, full or cold.

Whether it is high temperature, flood or drought.

An Italian inventor invented a walkie-talkie that can talk to plants. He connected plants to the electrodes of the walkie-talkie, then he heard the "talking" sound of plants, and then translated the code according to the information sent by plants to distinguish simple words such as "hot", "cold" and "thirsty".

Generally speaking, under normal circumstances, the "talking" sound of plants is rhythmic, accompanied by cheerful music tunes, but when encountering disastrous weather such as windy weather, the "talking" sound of plants becomes low and chaotic. When they are well-nourished, their voices are high; When nutrients are scarce, the voice of "speaking" is very weak.

Plants can be transfused.

A few years ago, Japanese scientists tested 150 kinds of vegetables, fruits and more than 500 kinds of plants, and found that half of them were O-type, and the rest were B-type and AB-type.

Recently, there has been a new breakthrough in the study of plant blood types. French scientist Claude Boyade found that corn, rape, tobacco and other plants also have hematopoietic function. If iron ions are added, hemoglobin needed by human body can be produced.

Trees can brush their teeth

Toothbrush tree is a kind of tree called "Alo", which grows in tropical forests in western Africa. If you saw off the trunk or branches and cut them into pieces with the length of the toothbrush handle for brushing your teeth, you can brush your teeth as white as snow.

When it enters the mouth, it will soon be soaked in saliva. At this time, the fiber at the top will split immediately and become "bristles" on the toothbrush, so it is called "toothbrush tree". There is something strange. There is one in Tanzania in East Africa.

This toothbrush tree is better than the last one. It is a kind of tree, and the fibers of its branches are very soft and elastic. People can make an ideal natural toothbrush by slightly processing the branches. You don't need toothpaste to brush your teeth with it.

It will also be full of bubbles. Because the branches contain a lot of soap and peppermint sesame oil, the toothbrush is not only clean, but also cool and comfortable.

Trees can put out fires.

Primitive forests in western Angola, Africa

In the forest, when people lit lighters under a tree named Xinkeshu and prepared to smoke, they didn't expect to suddenly spray white slurry from the leaves overhead to put out the fire. Even the inevitable ignition.

People will also be covered with white pulp beyond recognition. This sudden punishment seems to warn him: the forest is an important place for fire prevention, and you must not light it casually! Because the new Monday always faithfully guards the big forest, without mercy.

People regard it as a volunteer fireman in the forest.

Xinhuangshu is an evergreen tree. Its branches and leaves are particularly lush, and its shape is like a palm-down leaf.

Hanging, the whole tree is tightly covered. What wonderful "fire extinguisher" does Xinhuangshu rely on to extinguish the fire? It turns out that there are many knots between its branches, like a "ball" filled with water.

The surface is full of liquid secreted by trees. Strangely, these knots are particularly afraid of fire. Once they see the fire, they will spray white slurry from countless holes on the ground and under the trees. According to the research of scientists, Xinhuang

The slurry sprayed by trees actually contains fire-fighting substances such as carbon tetrachloride. With such an advanced "fire extinguisher", it is no wonder that there is such a powerful fire extinguishing ability.

Sometimes, people deliberately challenge Xin Keshu, in which.

When a bonfire is lit under the tree, Xinkeshu will go all out and continuously spray white slurry to the fire source until the fire is extinguished. Angolans can have such a "fire-fighting tree" for their country.

And proud. There is a proverb among them: "You should build a house with new books, you are not afraid of fire and live in peace." Now, people have successfully made automatic fire extinguishers like Xinkeshu.

A device to prevent fire.

Flowers eat people.

In the dense virgin forests and vast swamps of the Amazon river basin in South America, there is a frightening man-eating plant called the sun.

Ring flower. The ring flower is very delicate and charming, and its shape resembles a gear, hence the name. The leaves of the ring flowers are generally about 1 m long, and the flowers are scattered on the leaves. Ring flowers can give off an attractive orchid-like fragrance and can float far away.

Smell it. If people accidentally touch it or pick it, those slender leaves will immediately roll around like bird's claws, hold people tightly and drag them down on the wet grass until they can't move. this

At that time, Okumo, who was hiding on the Japanese flowers, swarmed on the victim, carefully sucked and chewed, and had a full meal. Spiders eat people's bodies, and digested excrement becomes fertilizer for daily flowers.

Trees can laugh and cry.

If you are lucky enough to travel to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda in Africa, don't miss the famous Zimida Harlan Botanical Garden, where not only the hospitable Rwandans welcome you, but even the trees in the Botanical Garden will laugh at you.

Greet each other. There is a laughing tree in the garden. This is a small tree, about seven or eight meters high, with a dark brown trunk and oval leaves. Between each branch, there is a small bell-shaped fruit, which is a cavity with many flowers in it.

Small spherical peel, which can roll freely; The skin of the fruit is covered with small holes. When the wind blows, the skin will shake with the wind, and the skin will roll in the cavity and hit the fragile shell constantly, so it will come out.

"Ha, ha ……" sounds like human laughter, so the locals call it "Laughing Tree".

In Brazil, there is a shrub called "Dier Nalty". This shrub will continue to grow during the day.

Make euphemistic music sounds; At night, it will constantly make a sad and low sob; Wait until dawn, it gives out sweet music. Some botanists think that this kind of music

Shrubs can laugh and cry during the day and make different sounds at night, which is closely related to sunlight.

Trees generate electricity.

In India, there is a tree that can generate electricity. If people pass by it and accidentally touch its branches, they will immediately feel as uncomfortable as being hit by current. It has the ability to generate and store electricity. The mechanism is not clear.