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
#Horizontaltransfer of an adaptive chimeric photoreceptor [Neochrome] from bryophytes to #ferns. Careful #phylogeny
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/18/6672.abstract
A 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)