Plants need the dimensions for rapid and accurate identification of exterior stimuli inside their environment for endurance. Upon acquaintance with biotic or abiotic stressors, plants can stimulate long-distance, electrical, chemical or hydraulic signals or trigger systemic stress responses. The overlying occurrence and rapidity of the signals upon plant exposure to numerous stressors varieties it stimulating to classify the signal introducing plant systemic stress/defence responses. Moreover, it is understood that systemic plant responses are not conveyed by a single pathway, but slightly by a combination of signals enabling the transmission of information on the dominant stressor(s) and its strength. In this paper, we précis the mode of action of long-distance, electrical, chemical and hydraulic signals, deliberate their importance in information transmission to biotic and abiotic stressors, and propose future research directions.