Tuesday, January 17, 2023

The Senses of Plants

Very recommendable! Nice overview article!

"... As is often the case in biology, to find the roots of plant perception we must go back to Charles Darwin. Late in life, the naturalist published in 1880 what was to be one of his last books, The Power of Movement in Plants, in collaboration with his son Francis, a botanist. Expanding on earlier work on climbing plants, the two experimented with tropism—the attraction of plants to stimuli—and nutation—the differentiated growth of their various parts that moves them towards stimuli. ..."

The Senses of Plants | OpenMind



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