Recently, there was a new drama, and no one was optimistic about it before it started. Watch the theme, fantasy romance, dissuade the warning; watch the cast, the bad movie run!
However, after the start of broadcasting, it became a large-scale real incense scene. With the advancement of the plot, the Douban score even rose to 7.8. It is a domestic fantasy drama starring Jing Tian: "Si Teng".
"Si Teng" is adapted from the novel of the same name, from the actors, to the production, as well as the early publicity, this drama does not have the potential to be a hit.
But now word of mouth has counterattacked, the score has soared by 7.8 points, the number of broadcasts dominates the top three of the three major platforms, and Jing Tian, who has been pasting for 10 years, has also begun to catch fire.
The TV series tells the story of young designer Qin Fang (Zhang Binbin) in a search for roots, due to an accident and Decades of sleep Si Teng (Jing Tian), in the process of helping Si Teng to find the truth of his life, the two know each other and overcome many obstacles to grow up together.
In the original novel, the heroine Si Teng is actually a demon who has cultivated into a spirit, and her original body is a white vine. However, after the founding of the country, it could not become a jing, and the screenwriter adapted Si Teng into a new species of "Yuan", that is, the genes of alien creatures, and the results of the fusion and evolution of animals on the earth, and the Qi clan had the same autonomous consciousness and behavioral ability as humans.
Therefore, Si Teng, who transformed into a human body, still retains many plant attributes on his body. This interesting setting adds a lot of points of interest to the TV series. Let's learn a lot about plants while watching "Si Teng".
When it comes to plants, many people think that it is a boring and simple organism, but if you read this book "Plants Know the Answer to Life", you will definitely change your mind.
This book takes us into the inner world of plants, contrasts their feelings with human sensations, and reveals the secret that shocks us: it turns out that plants can see, smell, touch, remember, locate, and that is a world that only a quiet mind can listen to.
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1. How to make a plant flower overnight?
Si Teng has a characteristic, she can never hide her mind. What to say? As a white vine, Si Teng fell in love, and a small white flower would bloom on his head and hands, which was the real "heart flower blooming"!
The most important thing is that the blooming of small white flowers is not controlled by Si Teng at all.
So, can humans control when plants bloom?
It is said that after Wu Zetian became emperor, it was quite willful, cold winter and moon, and suddenly he started to swim, so he ordered "The Ming Dynasty traveled to the garden, and the fire was urgent to report spring knowledge." Flowers and whiskers are sent overnight, do not wait for the wind to blow", a hundred flowers dare to resist, have blossomed and trembled, only the peony is cold, burned by the Emperor Wu, and also reduced to Luoyang, "scorched bone peony" hence the name, that is, today's "Luoyang red".
Scorched bone peony
After all, the legend is exaggerated, and the flowers are not human, so who has such a skill in observing the color? But "Plants Know the Answer to Life" tells us that flowers can indeed bloom in unison and become "blooming life", and they can also distinguish colors!
Scientists have found that the flowering time of plants can be controlled by light.
Take a short-day plant such as soybean to do experiments, as long as the lights are turned on for a few minutes in the middle of the night, you can make it not flower in short-day conditions; and take a long-day plant such as iris to do experiments, and as long as the lights are turned on for a few minutes in the middle of the night, you can make it bloom in November, when the days are shortest. That is, plants judge when to bloom, not the length of the day, but the length of successive dark periods.
Using this technique to trick the plants, you can make the chrysanthemums think that autumn has not come. Stay up until the end of April, no longer turn on the lights at night, all the chrysanthemums will feel that autumn has finally come, in two weeks to give birth to the buds, two weeks later, Mother's Day, "uproar" all bloomed!
Soon, scientists also found that not all light will hook plants, such as blue light and green light at night will not affect their flowering time, but a few seconds of red light will.
In the 1950s, botanist Harry Boswick made a surprising discovery: far-red light, a wavelength slightly longer than red light, or more specifically, the kind of light that can barely be seen at dusk, can eliminate the effect of red light on plants.
For example, if you take an iris that cannot flower normally under long night conditions, and give it a red flash in the middle of the night, it will bloom happily; but if the red light is immediately followed by a far red light, it will not flower; next, if you hit another red light, it will still flower, and so on...
The level of philosophization is that the plant remembers the last color it sees.
Later, botanist Warren Butler and colleagues demonstrated that both the red light effect and the far red light effect are triggered by a type of photoreceptor in plants called "photosensitive pigments." It's like a switch, red light, on! Far red light, off! Why do plants have such an effect?
Because in nature, when any plant is about to end its day, the last light it sees is a far red light, which means that it is time for them to rest; and in the morning, the plant wakes up bathed in the first red morning light, which means that it should wake up.
2. How do plants communicate?
In the play, Si Teng can sense the signal of the plants around her, the plants are thirsty and she waters, the plants are cold and want to bask in the sun, she puts the potted plants in the place where there is sunlight. Whenever I have time, I like to chat with the potted plants on the balcony.
In reality, what do no mouth plants rely on to talk? The answer: smell.
Our ancestors knew many ways to ripen fruits, and if the ancient Egyptians wanted to ripen the whole bunch of figs, they first cut through a few that were already ripe, and the ancient Chinese wanted the pears to ripen faster, so they burned a pillar of incense in the room where the pears were placed. The methods may seem very different, but the results are just as immediate.
Why? In 1924, scientist Franco Duney discovered that no matter what fruit is ripe, it is good to treat it with ethylene gas. Ripe figs naturally release ethylene, and Chinese-produced incense is shown to contain trace amounts of ethylene, and the fruit "smells" them and performs a rapid ripening behavior.
However, the transmission of ethylene signals between fruits is not intended to make it more convenient for humans to eat. From an ecological point of view, the purpose of this evolution is to ensure the spread efficiency of seeds - when a batch of fruits matures on a large scale induced by ethylene, they can brightly and conspicuously summon all kinds of seeders: "Look, we are ripe!" Come and eat us, but honey, after eating, remember to spit the core into the fat soil! ”
There is a famous "slacker" in the plant kingdom, which is a parasitic plant that does not photosynthesize on its own, but relies on grabbing nutrients from neighbors to make a living. This guy is not only lazy, but also very hungry, and if he were to choose between one tomato and several wheat plants, he would not hesitate to wrap around the tomato.
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Botanists have proved that the silkworms entangle tomatoes not by sight, but by smell. Tomatoes and wheat both contain a volatile substance called β-laurine, which is enough to lure silk seeds to grow towards them. The difference is that tomatoes also release two other good-smelling volatiles, doubling their attractiveness; but wheat contains acetic acid trans-3-hexene resin, which is a bit disgusting for the silk seeds, and as soon as the seeds "smell" it, they resolutely turn away from it.
In 1983, two scientists at the University of Washington noticed a phenomenon that if some willow trees were infested by other willow trees near the willow trees, the skyline caterpillars were less likely to eat on the leaves of these willow trees. There is no physical connection between these trees, the branches cannot be touched, the roots are not entangled, is it possible that the diseased tree warns the partners around them to "watch out for the enemy"?
The mass media happily accepted the idea of a "talking tree", but in fact, the tree is really dumb!
Communication between them depends on the sense of smell. Insect-infested leaves release a smell that is like the ignition warning of an invasion by a great enemy on the Beacon tower of the Great Wall. Healthy leaves that have received a warning will reflexively secrete some phenols and tannins, making the leaves no longer delicious, and even making caterpillars eat up and down diarrhea. Caterpillars had to let go of these spoiled delicacies.
The fragrance of roses, the fresh fragrance of grass, the sweetness of jasmine... Since ancient times, plants have emitted a variety of smells, really not to make stupid humans make perfumes and stink all the time, but between plants and plants, plants and animals, over a long period of time, evolved a complex set of communication methods and ingenious principles of equivalence exchange.
You don't understand, but a bee passing by a flower will naturally.
3. Plants are more "smart" than you think
Cherry blossoms in Washington, D.C., usually bloom in early April, when the day length is about 12 hours. By mid-September, the sunshine conditions were almost identical, but the trees never flowered.
Why? Because cherry blossom trees can distinguish between spring and autumn by remembering the previous winter, knowing that when they bloom in autumn, the fruit will be frozen by the winter that follows.
It is only in the last decade that the biological basis for cherry blossom trees to remember winter has been elucidated.
Once a plant passes through a period of cold weather, the FLC gene that controls flowering in the plant is no longer transcribed. This gene is turned off and does not flower until other environments have reached their ideal state. In perennial plants, once the plant has flowered, the FLC gene is reactivated by chromatin to prevent possible out-of-season blooming until the next winter passes.
In fact, this epigenetic mechanism of plants is not unique to plants, but its greatest strength lies in the fact that it allows memories not only to be transmitted from one season to another in one organism, but also from one generation to the next.
Swiss scientist Barbara Horn has shown that UV rays or pathogen attacks, for example, can cause plants to be stressed, produce new DNA combinations, and pass them on to the next generation. That is, these offspring plants remembered the coercion their parents had experienced and reacted in the same way.
Plants have vision, smell, movement, and memory, but should we admit that plants have intelligence?
There is no consensus on this in the current field of biology. A more accurate and uncontroversial expression is "plant consciousness," although plant consciousness is clearly very different from that of humans.
The conscious plant does not become conscious of the individual human being, it does not have the ability to produce emotions such as pain, pleasure, fear, sorrow, etc., and even if you cut off the flower that blooms the most beautifully in front of it, it will not remember you because they have no brain at all, and they do not have any emotional feelings.
The next time we walk through the park, we might as well take a few minutes to ask ourselves: What did the dandelions on the lawn see? What does the grass smell? Touch the leaves of the oak tree, you know it will remember being touched.
However, this tree will never remember you. Instead, if you remember this tree, you will have a memory of it in this lifetime.
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