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PLANT OPEN PLAN. "Importantly, most of these body plans have an ‘open and indeterminate' ontogeny involving multiple growing points and persistent cellular divisions throughout the lifetime of the individual such that adult size, geometry and shape are not necessarily developmentally prefigured in the juvenile condition." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/85/4/411.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

PROCESS RATHER THAN FORM. "Unlike those of the metazoans, the body plans of plants are difficult to categorize or define. The perspective taken here is that plant Baupläne are far more profitably discussed in terms of how organized growth is achieved and how different tissue fabrics are used to construct the plant body." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/85/4/411.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

STEREOTYPED EMBRYOPHYTES. "This history involved evolutionary modifications in a variety of body features that undoubtedly prefigured to some degree the highly stereotyped embryophyte body plan." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/85/4/411.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

VASCULAR PLANT RADIATION. "This focus has significantly advanced our understanding of the evolution of the embryophytes, but it has largely ignored a complex antecedent history during which different body plans evolved within and among the genetically distinct but morphologically homoplasic aquatic plant lineages, collectively called the `algae'." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/85/4/411.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

PLANT BODY PLANS. "In contrast, the evolution of body plans among plants, here defined as photosynthetic eukaryotes, has received comparatively much less attention and has been discussed largely in the context of the radiation of the early vascular land plants and their terrestrial non-vascular predecessors during early Paleozoic times." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/85/4/411.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

FOCUS ON ANIMAL BODY PLANS. "Much has been written about the initial appearance and subsequent evolution of metazoan body plans, particularly in terms of the great Cambrian `explosion' and the attending evolutionary debut of multicellular animal body plans during a comparatively brief period of time." https://lnkd.in/dqAQfMR View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE focuses on the evolution of plant body plans for this and next weekend. Plants can sometimes seem like extraterrestrial creatures. Wrapping ones mind around them is not easy, and biologists have long demonstrated a lack of understanding of these curious beings, which are so much less like vertebrates. How can an advanced creature be both diffuse (plant intelligence) and modular (cut off a bit of a plant and propagate it)? View in LinkedIn

Darwin’s mental rioting in Notebook B. View in LinkedIn

“PROGRAMMABLE PROPERTIES of innate or living things include SGH, ferroelectricity, pyroelectricity, piezoelectricity, and optical activity, and coupling of different streams of energy. And as we have explored before in earlier blogs, also phase changes in intracellular structured water.” https://lnkd.in/d2H77Zq View in LinkedIn

NON-ADAPTIVE TRAITS. "Charles Darwin observed that many traits are a consequence of descent from a last common ancestor that are themselves the products of earlier, presumably adaptive evolution. Darwin maintained that currently adaptive traits can and do co-exist with highly conserved traits having no apparent adaptive purpose." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/85/4/411.full.pdf View in LinkedIn