{"id":43880,"date":"2016-02-03T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=43880"},"modified":"2016-02-15T17:16:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T22:16:04","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-do-plants-have-sibling-rivalry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2016\/uncommon-knowledge-do-plants-have-sibling-rivalry\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Do Plants Have Sibling Rivalry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Micro-Green Kits | UncommonGoods\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/micro-green-kits?source=blog_uk020316\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43928\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Micro-Greens-main-image.jpg\" alt=\"Micro-Greens Kits | UncommonGoods\" width=\"620\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a>Quite the opposite, actually. Plants are extremely considerate of their siblings\u2014other plants grown from the seeds of the same mother plant\u2014and won\u2019t compete with their brethren the way they would with non-related plants.<\/p>\n<p>A study of more than 3,000 mustard seedlings found that chemical cues given off during root growth will alert the plant to their nearby family and will change the way the plants grow. Instead of rapidly growing their roots to take up as many nutrients as possible, plants that were growing near siblings developed a shallower root system and intertwined leaves so they\u2019d all have an equal chance at survival. The jury\u2019s still out on how plant siblings feel about each other during long car rides, when one is using the bathroom for too long, or after their parents tell them to share the last piece of cake.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Micro-Green Kits | UncommonGoods\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/micro-green-kits?source=blog_uk020316\" target=\"_blank\">Micro-Green Kits<\/a> |\u00a0$48.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sure hope cacti kids get along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":43927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43880"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44236,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43880\/revisions\/44236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}