SOPHISTICATED SENES. Plants “can sample and integrate in real time many different biotic and abiotic parameters, such as humidity, light, gravity, temperature, nutrient patches and microorganisms in the soil, and many more, courtesy of a highly sophisticated sensorimotor system that includes proprioception, with sensory information being transduced via a number of modalities.”
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