When humans get hurt, they feel pain. Between these occurrences there is a series of indirect relay reactions. An analogical set called transduction of signals exists in all living organisms, including plants. When a stimulus appears, for instance a draft factor as an attack of a pathogen, a plant receives this information through a receptor, analyzes it, sometimes amplifies it and forms a corresponding reaction.
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