Month: September 2022

CYCLIC EFFECTS. "When plants learn, they change their behaviour, which in turn shapes their environments. The changing environments may modify the selection pressures on the plants in turn." http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)30459-6 View in LinkedIn

RISK SENSITIVITY. "Pea Plants Show Risk Sensitivity. Our results are among the strongest observed reliable switches between risk proneness and risk aversion as a function of resource availability, not just in plants but in any organism other than humans, and the first characterization of risk sensitivity outside species with nervous systems." http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)30459-6 View in LinkedIn

RISK PROFILES. "The fact that Pisum (pea) showed sufficient phenotypic plasticity to switch from risk proneness to risk aversion as a function of circumstances is striking because such switch in risk preference has often been predicted and claimed in animals, but the empirical evidence for it is unreliable." http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)30459-6 View in LinkedIn

COMPLEX COGNITION NOT REQUIRED. "Plants’ risk sensitivity reinforces the oft-repeated assertion that complex adaptive strategies do not require complex cognition (adaptive strategies may be complex for us to understand, without necessarily being complex for organisms to implement)." http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)30459-6 View in LinkedIn

COMPLEX RESPONSES. "Bacteria, fungi, and plants generate flexible and impressively complex responses through “decision” processes embedded in their physiological architecture, implementing adaptive responses that work well under a limited set of ecological circumstances (i.e., that are ecologically rational)." http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)30459-6 View in LinkedIn

SENTIENT ANIMALS. "Plants can, not only learn and memorize, but also make decisions and solve complex problems." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-016-1040-1 View in LinkedIn

SOPHISTICATED SENES. Plants "can sample and integrate in real time many different biotic and abiotic parameters, such as humidity, light, gravity, temperature, nutrient patches and microorganisms in the soil, and many more, courtesy of a highly sophisticated sensorimotor system that includes proprioception, with sensory information being transduced via a number of modalities." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-016-1040-1 View in LinkedIn