"Nation of Plants" Exhibition Unveils Interactive Shows for Visitors

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The Biodiversity Museum at Expo 2023 Doha showcases the region's rich flora and fauna through the "nation of plants" events, along with attractive video clips and interactive shows that help visitors explore plant intelligence and ability to learn and communicate with its surroundings.

The expo is open for visitors during the whole week, its halls review the motto of the event titled:" Green desert, better environment," as well as biodiversity topics, heritage, and decertification invoking the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, natural resources, food, desert environment, coastal ecosystem, in addition to the landscape of urban garden through presenting an overview of the vision of sustainable agriculture.

The exhibition addresses the topic of humans for plants, trees from roots to crown, and plant superpowers, introducing the Sidr tree and its implications on planetary health and sustainability.

It also highlights the scientists' efforts to prove that plants may feel pain with some kind of recognition and consciousness, since they produce ethylene to regulate all their functions, starting with germination and ending with the ripening of fruit.

Plants also release ethylene when they become nervous, or when they are exposed to assault by humans, but weirdly other surrounding plants also feel the same, since fruits produce a massive quantity of gases when they become ready to eat.

Source: QNA