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PRIORITIZATION. "Plants are able to integrate and simultaneously process multiple stimuli and prioritize their responses." http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/psb.5.11.13243#abstract View in LinkedIn

MARTIAN ORGANIZATION. "Since a plant can be regenerated from a single meristem, redundancy in tissue development is self‐evident. Furthermore, growth regulators often overlap in their effects. This is organizational plasticity we simply do not understand." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/92/1/1.full View in LinkedIn

MEMORIES OF LIGHT. "Indeed leaves in the dark are able to not only “see” the light, but also are able to differently remember its spectral composition and use this memorized information to increase their Darwinian fitness." (Dramatic visual data). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/psb.5.11.13243#abstract View in LinkedIn

INTELLIGENT. "Our results suggest that plants are intelligent organisms capable of performing a sort of thinking process (understood as at the same time and non-stress conditions capable of performing several different scenarios of possible future definitive responses), and capable of memorizing this training." http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/psb.5.11.13243#abstract View in LinkedIn

FUNCTION. "Gene body methylation seems to be an ancient property of eukaryotic genomes and it might be involved in the prevention of transcriptional initiation within the gene body." http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/62/11/3713.full View in LinkedIn

EPIGENETIC METHYLATION MARKERS. "Both in monocots (rice) and in dicots (Arabidopsis and poplar), CG methylation, but not CHG or CHH methylation, exhibits a peak in the body of protein-coding genes. Exons tend to be more highly methylated than introns, and the end of the gene shows a similar drop in methylation to the gene's promoter region." http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/62/11/3713.full View in LinkedIn