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DISPERSED INTENTIONALITY. ""The world of higher plants furnishes a perfect image of dispersed intentionality in modular development or iterative growth: adaptively variable growth is uneven and involves complex branching patterns that effectively respond to sub-optimal niche conditions in order to recover the optimal niche for a given plant. Each shoot and part of root pursues its own trajectory of intentionality, reflecting the uneven distribution of resources to which it strives and, most often, contributing to the asymmetry of the whole." http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/psb.21954#abstract View in LinkedIn

INTENTIONALITY. "Scattered trajectories of intentionality are also characteristic of plant life. Colonies of lower plants feature social intelligence, akin to that of a beehive or an anthill." http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/psb.21954#abstract View in LinkedIn

INJURY SIGNALS. "There's other experiments where we've shown if we injure that mother tree experimentally that she will also send defence signals out to other seedlings around her." http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/the-underestimated-power-of-plants/7227008 View in LinkedIn

TREE KIN. "The mother trees are providing a favourable environment for the regeneration of their own kin, their own genes. That is one example of forests behaving like a family." http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/the-underestimated-power-of-plants/7227008 View in LinkedIn

TREE KIN RECOGNITION. "We know that big old trees—we call them mother trees—will communicate with seedlings that are their kin or their kids and make room for those kids compared to seedlings that are strangers, and they are doing this through their mycorrhizal networks." http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/the-underestimated-power-of-plants/7227008 View in LinkedIn

COMPLEX PROBLEM. "It is very clear that the construction and maintenance of an accurate spatial map of a large plant such as a tree would demand huge processing power. Thousands of leaves and roots, each having a need to sense their local environment to serve their own needs, would produce very large amounts of data. The data would be changing by the minute as the leaves fluttered in a breeze and the roots explored their very heterogeneous environment." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/93/4/345.full View in LinkedIn

ANNUAL WEATHER PREDICTIONS. "Many trees determine flower numbers a year in advance and if the spring is cold or water deficient, flower buds are simply abscised to adjust potential fruit production with predicted summer circumstances." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-005-0014-9 View in LinkedIn