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WOOD-WIDE WEB. "Trees in a forest organize themselves into far-flung networks, using the underground web of mycorrhizal fungi which connects their roots to exchange information and even goods. This “wood-wide web,” as the title of one paper put it, allows scores of trees in a forest to convey warnings of insect attacks, and also to deliver carbon, nitrogen, and water to trees in need." https://lnkd.in/dvFaNgd View in LinkedIn

PLANT TRANSCRIPT OSCILLATIONS. “There are also oscillations in the abundance of nuclear-encoded transcripts for chloroplast-localized photosynthesis proteins that may contribute to the circadian regulation of chloroplasts.” https://lnkd.in/dAX4kdh View in LinkedIn

REGULATORY LOOPS. “In higher plants, there are circadian rhythms of photosynthesis that are controlled by the nuclear-encoded circadian oscillator. This implies that the nuclear-encoded circadian oscillator controls events within plastids through nucleus to plastid anterograde signaling.” https://lnkd.in/dAX4kdh View in LinkedIn

HUGE CHANGES. "These findings suggest that profound changes in the chemosensory capabilities occurred in the cetacean lineage before the Odontoceti-Mysticeti split, during the period when ancestral whales migrated from land to water." https://lnkd.in/dcqHGKG View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues and concludes this weekend from last weekend on the theme of the return of the whales to the sea after their epic transition from salt walter to the land. Few transitions during evolution have been so dramatic and challenging from so many perspectives, but to have done it twice is beyond remarkable. Loosing ones wings is one thing, but living entirely in water after being land adapted once is quite another thing entirely. View in LinkedIn

Slimes, sludges and oozes, everything that you could ever wish for! View in LinkedIn

RIGOROUS APPROACH. "Since memory is a necessary pre-requisite of learning—an essential component of intelligence, we need to examine critically the previously proposed examples of intelligent behavior in plants, and for the sake of certainty discard all cases where involvement of memory cannot be safely inferred. We may even have to give up some potentially relevant phenomena to be sure: what we need are criteria for identification of cases of plant memory and learning that are beyond any doubt." https://lnkd.in/dfsCv77 View in LinkedIn