FEDERATION OF PLANT ORGANS. “Each organ has some extra information derived from the overall integrative state of the plant. This extra information is available from the summed activities of all members of the federation of organs, but such exotic information is rarely complex. Some extra specific information might also be available to certain cells from chemical signals emanating from non‐adjacent cells.”
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