Root intelligence: #Plants can think, feel and learn… But on a slow timescale http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22429980.400-root-intelligence-plants-can-think-feel-and-learn.html Memory & "brain" near end of roots
Posts Tagged ‘plants’
Root intelligence: Plants can think, feel and learn – life – 03 December 2014 – Control – New Scientist
January 2, 2015Horizontal transfer of an adaptive chimeric photoreceptor from bryophytes to ferns
June 13, 2014#Horizontaltransfer of an adaptive chimeric photoreceptor [Neochrome] from bryophytes to #ferns. Careful #phylogeny
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/18/6672.abstract
Michael Pollan: How Smart Are Plants? : The New Yorker
January 15, 2014A REPORTER AT LARGE
THE INTELLIGENT PLANT
Scientists debate a new way of understanding flora.
BY MICHAEL POLLAN
DECEMBER 23, 2013
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/12/23/131223fa_fact_pollan
How Smart Are #Plants? Do they feel pain? Is plant #neurobiology an oxymoron? http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/12/23/131223fa_fact_pollan HT @AlanGuerryMS @michaelpollan (1/2)
Time-lapse #video of a bean “striving” to reach a pole. If we were slower, perhaps #plants would seem smarter
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/12/video-do-bean-plants-show-intelligence.html (2/2)