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MARTIAN ORGANIZATION. "Since a plant can be regenerated from a single meristem, redundancy in tissue development is self‐evident. Furthermore, growth regulators often overlap in their effects. This is organizational plasticity we simply do not understand." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/92/1/1.full View in LinkedIn

MEMORIES OF LIGHT. "Indeed leaves in the dark are able to not only “see” the light, but also are able to differently remember its spectral composition and use this memorized information to increase their Darwinian fitness." (Dramatic visual data). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/psb.5.11.13243#abstract View in LinkedIn

INTELLIGENT. "Our results suggest that plants are intelligent organisms capable of performing a sort of thinking process (understood as at the same time and non-stress conditions capable of performing several different scenarios of possible future definitive responses), and capable of memorizing this training." http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/psb.5.11.13243#abstract View in LinkedIn

"PLANT CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION has been mostly studied in protoplast systems. In such experimental systems dedifferentiation can be resolved into acquisition of competence for pluripotentiality and signal-dependent re-entry into S phase, each phase being accompanied by a broad chromatin decondensation. For reactivation of the cell cycle it is usually necessary that plant growth regulators are applied, but this occurs independently from the acquisition of competence for pluripotentiality." http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/62/11/3713.full View in LinkedIn

PLANT DEDIFFERENTIATION. "In response to specific environmental signals, cells acquire competence to switch fate which is accomplished by going through a dedifferentiation process followed by the implementation of a new developmental pathway. This sequence of events is accompanied by changes at the chromatin level and reprogramming of gene expression, highlighting the central role of epigenetic regulation in these processes." http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/62/11/3713.full View in LinkedIn