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FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend and concludes this weekend on the theme of the return of some land plants, seagrasses in particular, to a sea life. This evolutionary transition for plants was challenging from a biochemical and physiological perspective. Consider only how salt intolerant most land plants are. This case study of an evolutionary reversal is quite fascinating. View in LinkedIn

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Professor Stefano Mancuso is perhaps the field’s most impassioned spokesman for the plant point of view. https://lnkd.in/dcnjkZB View in LinkedIn

MICHAEL POLLAN on The Intelligent Plant. “A controversial 2006 article in Trends in Plant Science proposing a new field of inquiry that the authors, perhaps somewhat recklessly, elected to call “plant neurobiology.” https://lnkd.in/dvFaNgd View in LinkedIn

"ANTHONY TREWAVAS FRS FRSE is a Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology of the University of Edinburgh best known for his research in the fields of plant physiology and molecular biology. He obtained both his degree and Ph.D in Biochemistry at University College London before performing post doctoral work at the newly constituted University of East Anglia. He moved to the University of Edinburgh in 1970. In 1972 he was invited to be first Visiting Professor at the prestigious Plant Research laboratory in Michigan State University." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Trewavas View in LinkedIn

DISRUPTIVE IDEA. "The concept of plant intelligence, as proposed by Anthony Trewavas, has raised considerable discussion. The initially promising idea unfortunately appears to have been reduced to a mere metaphor nowadays, having possibly partly fallen victim of the heated exchange concerning the program of “plant neurobiology”." https://lnkd.in/dBZBAD2 View in LinkedIn

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