Smarty Pants: The Nature of Things features UBC forestry professor

UBC’s Suzanne Simard, a professor in the Faculty of Forestry, will be featured in an upcoming episode of The Nature of Things: Smarty Plants: Uncovering the Secret World of Plant Behaviour.

The episode uncovers the real “secret world” of plants, revealing a landscape pulsing with sex, movement, communication, and social interaction, where plants talk, forage, wage war and protect their kin.

For more information and to watch a trailer, visit http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episode/smarty-plants-uncovering-the-secret-world-of-plant-behaviour.html.

Date:   March 22
Time:  8 p.m.