Month: September 2022

ANTICIPATION. "Plants can anticipate competition for resources, growing differentially depending upon the future acquisition of minerals and water." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-016-1040-1 View in LinkedIn

KIN RECOGNITION. "Plants also exhibit self-recognition and territoriality, being able to tell apart own from alien, directing their movements towards their targets of interest." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-016-1040-1 View in LinkedIn

CHEMICAL COMMUNICATION. "Plants can communicate aerially (via released volatile organic compounds—VOCs—with members of their own kind and with members of other species)." (VOCs = volatile organic compounds). http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-016-1040-1 View in LinkedIn

ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION. Plants "can even communicate bioacoustically, making and perceiving ‘clicking’ noises." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-016-1040-1 View in LinkedIn

VIBRATIONS. "Some plants can tell vibrations caused by predators apart from innocuous ones (wind or the chirps of insects), eliciting chemical defenses selectively." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-016-1040-1 View in LinkedIn

LISTENING. "Researchers, says Pollan, have played a recording of a caterpillar munching on a leaf to plants — and the plants react. They begin to secrete defensive chemicals — even though the plant isn't really threatened, Pollan says. "It is somehow hearing what is, to it, a terrifying sound of a caterpillar munching on its leaves." http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-01-09/new-research-plant-intelligence-may-forever-change-how-you-think-about-plants View in LinkedIn

RANGE OF SENSES. "Plants have all the same senses as humans, and then some. In addition to hearing, taste, for example, they can sense gravity, the presence of water, or even feel that an obstruction is in the way of its roots, before coming into contact with it. Plant roots will shift direction, he says, to avoid obstacles." http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-01-09/new-research-plant-intelligence-may-forever-change-how-you-think-about-plants View in LinkedIn