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PLANT MEMORY CIRCUITS. "There is a storage and recall memory based on a complex network of elements with a high degree of integration and feedback. The most important elements envisaged are calcium waves, epigenetic modifications of DNA and histones, and regulation of timing via a biological clock." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1438-8677.2012.00674.x/abstract View in LinkedIn

PLANT MEMORY. "In plants one may distinguish two types. There are linear pathways from reception of signals and propagation of effectors to a type of memory that may be described by terms such as learning, habituation or priming." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1438-8677.2012.00674.x/abstract View in LinkedIn

MEMORY BASIS. "All memory functions have molecular bases, namely in signal reception and transduction, and in storage and recall of information. Thus, at all levels of organisation living organisms have some kind of memory." https://lnkd.in/didU-Wa View in LinkedIn

A very soft fiber resistant to mites. View in LinkedIn

PLANT COEVOLUTION. "A plant's-eye view - Michael Pollan" https://lnkd.in/d-rTAvY View in LinkedIn

PATTERNS. “The nonliving universe is as diverse and as dynamic as the living universe, and is also dominated by patterns of organization that are not yet understood. This picture of living creatures, as patterns of organization rather than collections of molecules, applies also to sand dunes and snowflakes, thunderstorms and hurricanes.” https://lnkd.in/dts5S86 View in LinkedIn

CLOUDS. Every time I fly, I am impressed by the cloudscapes, and their orderly forms composed of disorderly vapor molecules. It is a grand self-assembly of innate materials, following some rigid physical laws. Given that weather systems are infinitely chaotic on one level, why do we have only ~100 cloud types? https://lnkd.in/dxRTsaW View in LinkedIn

A NEW SECTION STARTS on the subject of the biology and ecology of clouds. This layer of planet Earth is just a fluffy blanket, and for centuries we considered it to be as sterile as mother’s milk, but both assumptions turned out wrong. Life ‘will find a way’, is a famous quote from Jurassic Park. We have only just started to scratch the surface of microbial life, which seems to have no limits for its habitats. The door is opening in surprising ways. View in LinkedIn