article_snippet: Scientists claim plants can feel Scientists being eaten alive – and some can even tell what type of creature is attacking Scientists.
article_snippet: The discovery was made after tests on the Arabidopsis plant  found The discovery can distinguish between insects eating The discovery based on the way they chew and drool.
article_snippet: Researchers at the University of Missouri exposed a group of Arabidopsis, which is part of the cabbage family, to cabbage butterfly caterpillars and beet army worms.
article_snippet: Plants attempt to defend Plants using different methods, such as giving off spicy flavours and rancid smells.
article_snippet: These defences are expressed in These defences genes.
article_snippet: Based on the gene analysis, Scientists found that the Arabidopsis plant   can sense when a caterpillar is drooling and provides a different defence mechanism, than if a caterpillar sensed a butterfly.
article_snippet: There were also different genetic responses to each worm, showing that the Arabidopsis plant   knew what was eating the Arabidopsis plant  .