Plants vs Zombies vs Reality: How Plants Actually Defend Themselves

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In this video, we dive into the wild world of real plant defences:
How tobacco plants use nicotine as a neurotoxin
How acacia trees hire ants as bodyguards
How fungi help plants talk across forests
How plants wage war against real-life invaders like viruses and parasitic fungi

Plants may look passive, but they’re strategic survivors, locked in evolutionary combat for millions of years.

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00:00 – Intro: Plants vs Zombies… and Reality
01:05 – Plants Aren’t Helpless (Physical Defences)
02:00 – Chemical Warfare: Nicotine, Caffeine & Capsaicin
03:09 – Plant-Animal Alliances: Ants & Parasitic Wasps
04:31 – The Wood Wide Web and VOCs: How Plants Warn Each Other
05:57 – Energy Strategy: The Cost of Survival
07:00 – Real Plant Horror: Immune Systems vs Parasites
07:53 – Final Thoughts: Strategic, Silent Survivors
08:27 – Outro + Call to Action

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Hammerbacher et al. 2019. Roles of plant volatiles in defence against microbial pathogens and microbial exploitation of volatiles. Plant Cell Environ. 42(1): 2827-2843

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