I've always wanted to know, do plants think? I just like to assume they do but I read this article about an experiment that a few Russian scientists did with cabbage. Here it is:
A row of about six cabbage plants were attached to a sensitive instrument that measured various electronic waves transmitted by the living plants. The device worked somewhat like an electroencephalograph attached to the human brain.
During the experiment, a man entered the room each day at a certain time to water and add nourishment to the soil in each of the pots in which the cabbages were growing. The signals were recorded. There was a reaction to this activity each day.
Then one day a new person entered the room carrying an ax. This man walked up to one of the cabbage plants and chopped it to pieces. The response on the recorders was immediate. There was a wild increase in electronic activity. It was clear that the other cabbage plants not only were aware of this terrible event, they expressed a strong response to what just happened.
From that time on, the mere entrance of the room by the man who had wielded the ax, caused the same kind of electronic reaction among the surviving cabbage plants.
The conclusion among the scientists conducting the study is that the cabbage plants not only are aware of their surroundings, they communicate with one another, and respond to events that affect them.
Good question about the pesticide... I would think that there is something morally wrong with using a poison if something has intelligence to be aware of it. Though, I can already find holes in the statement I just made.
Well I guess a better question would have been herbicides... since pesticides only help the plants, lol. Pesticides would be to plants like what a vaccine is to us. Herbicides would be mass genocide.
I actually did that on one of my Plant Biology exams. I put pesticide.... and then when I went back to double check, I was like wtf was I thinking?! Herbicides are used on plants! Not pesticides! Almost lost some points there...
on mythbusters they sent electrical impulses thorugh plants to see if they reacte in a way that would show a brain telling the body of pain. it happened for a plant but not for anything else like yogurt, which is alive.