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ATTENTION. "On the other hand, attention is a feature of intelligent conduct in the present, whereby an organism selectively responds to ever-shifting stimuli in a way that allows it to maintain adequate levels of adaptation to its environment. Before processing, evaluating and communicating information, plants must first attend to—or take note of—the bits that are relevant to their optimal growth and development." http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/psb.23902#abstract View in LinkedIn

PAST-BIASED MARKER. "Studies of plant intelligence have tended to concentrate on memory as a benchmark of intelligent behavior. Although memory has a bearing on all three modalities of time, including a remembered past event, the present of storage and the possibility of future retrieval, it is a marker of intelligence heavily biased toward the past." http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/psb.23902#abstract View in LinkedIn

INCREASED SALINITY LEVELS. "One of the questions that has to remain open is how exactly do seagrasses deal with the high salinity of the ocean. Seagrasses have been found to harbor increased intracellular levels of Na+ and K+ as compared to terrestrial angiosperm species as well as to other aquatic angiosperms." http://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2148-11-8 View in LinkedIn

SALT TOLERANCE. "Physiologically, however, seagrasses must cope with high ion concentrations, inefficient carbon uptake and other physical coping mechanisms that are still poorly understood." http://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2148-11-8 View in LinkedIn

GENETIC DIVERGENCE. “Only genes that were contained in the available seagrass EST collections could be analyzed in this study. Consequently, the current dataset of orthologous gene clusters for 10 angiosperm species is biased and limited in size. 51 genes showed evidence for positive selection in seagrass branches indicating that photosynthesis, a few metabolic pathways, and ribosomes have strongly diverged after the split of the common ancestor of seagrasses from terrestrial monocots.” http://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2148-11-8 View in LinkedIn

GLOOMY LIGHT. “Finally, seagrasses are able to activate different mechanisms to cope with conditions of light-limitation and shifted light spectrum through long-lasting metabolic adjustments including down-regulation of RuBisCO, enhanced proteolysis and putative changes in the antenna complex.” http://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2148-11-8 View in LinkedIn