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EMERGENT PROPERTIES. "Plants are as adept as animals and humans in reacting effectively to their ever-changing environment. Of necessity, their sessile nature requires specific adaptations, but their cells possess a network-type communication system with emerging properties at the level of the organ or entire plant." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1360138515002897 View in LinkedIn

MISTLETOE MIMICS. "Interspecific variation in leaf morphology of New Zealand and Australian mistletoes has long been interpreted as an example of leaf mimicry because of the uncanny resemblance between the host and its parasitizing mistletoe." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982214003881 View in LinkedIn

OTHER PLANT MIMICS. "Desert succulents that mimic stones." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982214003881 View in LinkedIn

CHAMELEON PLANTS. "Perhaps the most pointed evidence for the mimicry interpretation of B. trifoliata leaf morphology is the documentation of variation among the leaves produced by single individuals. Some individuals were observed to climb between individuals of different host species, and here the leaves appeared to be mimicking those leaves closest to them, adopting a different morphology at different parts of the same stem." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982214003881 View in LinkedIn

MODULAR DESIGN. "On the first scale, learning occurs by parts of the plant without being regulated by the activity of the plant as a whole. The modular character of a plant in distinction to an animal is well established (though animals do have modularity as well). Localized activities happen in individual cells and are mediated in multicellular locales." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12304-013-9164-x View in LinkedIn