EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: LS 3-LS3-2, 4-LS1-1 Crosscutting Concepts: Cause and Effect, Systems and System Models Can plants feel pain? Not really, but they can sense a lot more than you might give them credit for! That's right, plants talk to each other. And we're just starting to understand them. Dr. Appel took this research one step further when she discovered "listening plants ." In the study, caterpillars were placed on Arabidopsis, a small flowering plant r