PLANT COMPUTATION. "Do plants compute? The blunt answer is “yes”. Plants compute insofar as they manipulate representational states." https://lnkd.in/dCiS4nY View in LinkedIn
PLASTICITY AND INTELLIGENCE. "Plasticity is the degree to which an organism can be changed in response to environmental signals and is...a clear example of plant intelligence. Plasticity can be expressed in both physiology and morphology." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/92/1/1.full View in LinkedIn
PROTEIN CHANNELS. "Plants make protein channels that are similar to those found in neurons. They also open and close in response to appropriate signals, and, when open, allow ions, especially calcium, to flow." https://lnkd.in/dNJuzzz View in LinkedIn
PLANT COMMUNICATION. "The information that is being communicated between tissues and cells is now known to be extraordinarily complex. Communication involves nucleic acids, oligonucleotides, proteins and peptides, minerals, oxidative signals, gases, hydraulic and other mechanical signals, electrical signals, lipids, wall fragments (oligosaccharides), growth regulators, some amino acids, secondary products of many kinds, minerals and simple sugars." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/92/1/1.full View in LinkedIn
PLANT ELECTRICITY. "In the 1980s, scientists discovered that phloem cells also function as a communication system through which electrical signals travel. This is similar to the electrical signals transmitted through the neurons in your nervous system. In both plants and animals, electrical signals function in an analogous manner. They transmit information from one location to another." https://lnkd.in/dNJuzzz View in LinkedIn
LISTENING TO PLANT CHATTER. "Internal communications in plants share striking similarities with those in animals, new research reveals. With the help of tiny insects, scientists were able to tap into this communication system." https://lnkd.in/dNJuzzz View in LinkedIn
HYDRAULIC NOISES. "Bark beetles may pick up the air bubble pops inside a plant, a hint that trees are experiencing drought stress." http://www.livescience.com/27802-plants-trees-talk-with-sound.html View in LinkedIn
BEES AND PLANTS HEAR EACH OTHER. "Bees buzz at just the right frequencies to relapse pollen from tomatoes and some other flowering plants. “ http://www.livescience.com/27802-plants-trees-talk-with-sound.html View in LinkedIn