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TREE KIN RECOGNITION. "We know that big old trees—we call them mother trees—will communicate with seedlings that are their kin or their kids and make room for those kids compared to seedlings that are strangers, and they are doing this through their mycorrhizal networks." http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/the-underestimated-power-of-plants/7227008 View in LinkedIn

COMPLEX PROBLEM. "It is very clear that the construction and maintenance of an accurate spatial map of a large plant such as a tree would demand huge processing power. Thousands of leaves and roots, each having a need to sense their local environment to serve their own needs, would produce very large amounts of data. The data would be changing by the minute as the leaves fluttered in a breeze and the roots explored their very heterogeneous environment." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/93/4/345.full View in LinkedIn

“PLANT BIO-ATTENTION is what we may call “hyper-attention,” as every vertical shoot, leaf and rootlet monitors the minutest environmental variations proximate to it. Far from a redundancy, the plant’s non-totalized intelligence is explicable, in cognitive terms, as a paralleling processing model, with every organ of intentionality playing the role of a parallel processor." http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/psb.21954#abstract View in LinkedIn

CAMBIUM ARBITER. "Carbohydrate (captured energy from more productive branches) and root resources are directed away from unproductive tissues and donated instead to productive organs to optimise energy acquisition and minimize energy outlay under competitive circumstances. The cambium is probably the decision arbiter over shoot branching and maintenance patterns." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-005-0014-9 View in LinkedIn