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PUBLICATIONS. "Plant behaviour and intelligence by Anthony Trewavas, Brilliant green: The surprising history and science of plant intelligence by Stefano Mancuso and Alessandro Viola (2015), or Michael Marder’s (2013) Plant-thinking: A philosophy of vegetal life, are but a sample of the ever-increasing number of publications devoted in the last decade to the scientific and philosophical study of plant intelligence." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-016-1040-1 View in LinkedIn

NOT TABOO. "Speaking about plant intelligence is not taboo any longer." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-016-1040-1 View in LinkedIn

PREFERENCES. "If you grow a plant with a red light on its right and a blue light on its left, it will "decide" to bend to the blue light." http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34849374 View in LinkedIn

INFORMATION FLOW. "There's information being exchanged between roots and leaves and flowers and pollinators and the environment all the time. The plant is making "decisions" - should I change 10 degrees to the left, five degrees to the right? Is it time to flower now? Is enough water available?" http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34849374 View in LinkedIn

LEAF PLASTICITY. "The authors interpret these patterns as a case of leaf mimicry, where leaf shape in B. trifoliata is strongly phenotypically plastic, with the leaves of a given individual mimicking those of their host." Not bad for plants with no eyes. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982214003881 View in LinkedIn

LEAF MIMICRY. "Boquila trifoliata, a woody vine that occurs in temperate rainforests of southern Chile...the vines’ leaves appeared to vary at their study site in ways that matched the leaf morphology of the trees upon which the vines were growing, apparently adopting the colour, shape and size of their host’s leaves." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982214003881 View in LinkedIn