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DOSE-RESPONSE. "Recognition of individuality can easily be seen from dose‐response curves. Such dose‐response data can vary over three to five orders of magnitude change in the strength of the inducing stimulus, thus indicating the degree of individual variation." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/92/1/1.full View in LinkedIn

HYPOTHESIS. "Individuality of the kind commonly observed in plants might be unique. A mechanism for individuality has been proposed as originating from stochastic variation in the distribution between daughter cells of tiny numbers of critical proteins controlling cell and tissue development." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/92/1/1.full View in LinkedIn

RESOURCE MOSAIC. "As if to counteract the paucity of different tissues in the normal vegetative plant, continued embryogenic development by meristems results in tissues and cells with enormous varieties of individual behaviour. A reservoir of different cell behaviours becomes available to enable construction of a variety of tissue and plant behaviours to exploit the resource mosaic." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/92/1/1.full View in LinkedIn

"INDIVIDUALITY is used to describe situations in which morphologically or anatomically identical cells, tissues or plants show non‐similar responses to signals. Individuality receives little or no investigation in plant science despite being a widespread phenomenon." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/92/1/1.full View in LinkedIn

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PART AUTONOMY. "Our understanding of plant intelligence must therefore accommodate these properties and answer some very basic questions: how many varieties of behaviour can be constructed with a limited number of tissues; does partial independence in the behaviour of individual growing tissues change a holistic view of plant intelligence?" http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/92/1/1.full View in LinkedIn

DEMOCRATIC CONFEDERATION. "Plants can be best viewed as more like a democratic confederation in their control structure rather than an autocracy as occurs in animals, controlled by an all‐embracing nervous system." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/92/1/1.full View in LinkedIn