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HYBRID SYMBIOSIS. "Significant aspects of plant structure and function which contribute to intelligent plant behavior can be traced to early evolutionary relationships with pathogenic and symbiotic microorganisms and fungi. These plant innovations, including synaptic machinery, are a putative direct outcome of intelligent-like reciprocation between plants and microorganisms to achieve selfish and selfless goals." http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2013.00044/full View in LinkedIn

CROSS-SPECIES INTERACTIONS. "Such highly integrated social and cognitive-like traits presumably evolved in plants to allow them to interact with other plants, microorganisms, and even higher animals, including us humans." http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2013.00044/full View in LinkedIn

PLANT SOCIAL FUNCTIONS. "To properly execute these sorts of sophisticated behaviors, plants require social (cooperation, competition, etc.) and cognitive-like abilities (learning, memory, perception, etc.) to limit and correct errors in signal detection and performance, among other phenomena." http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2013.00044/full View in LinkedIn

COLLABORATIVE COMMUNICATION. "Complex plant bodies of modern plants are well integrated via long-distance signaling and communication to effect and coordinate behaviors important for survival, such as collective defenses against predators and foraging for soil nutrients, and reproduction, such as pollinator attraction or seed dispersal." http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2013.00044/full View in LinkedIn

STRATEGIC ACCUMULATION. "Sensory discrimination and coordinated action enable plants, especially their roots, to secure territories for optimal plant survival and reproduction." http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2013.00044/full View in LinkedIn

ROOT SWARM INTELLIGENCE. "Roots discriminate self from non-self roots and they are also capable of kin recognition and swarm intelligence." http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2013.00044/full View in LinkedIn

DO PLANTS HAVE SENSES? Historically, these have been assumed to be minimal. Light, water and gravity. But we have been fooled by looking in the mirror. View in LinkedIn

HYBRID FORMATION. "It can be proposed that numerous invasions of ancient roots via bacteria and especially fungi resulted in generation of abundant host-pathogen synapses which transformed later into the symbiotic and, finally, into the auxin-secreting root synapses most active in epithel-like epidermis and endodermis at and around the transition zone." http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2013.00044/full View in LinkedIn

Their lives almost certainly mattered as much to them as ours do to us. View in LinkedIn