Parasitic Plants May Be Talking To Their Hosts Through MRNA

If you still have nightmares about the Venus Fly Trap in "Little Shop of Horrors" saying, "Feed me, Seymour," you're not going to be happy about the findings by a Virginia Tech scientist. Jim Westwood, a professor of plant pathology, physiology and weed science, has found plants communicate with each other on a molecular level, but it's still unclear what they're saying to each other.