Can Plants Think?
Posted by Justin on July 15th, 2010A Polish plant biologist is suggesting that plants are capable of thought.
Plants “remember” information about light, and a certain type of cell transmits that information, much like nerves do in animals.
In the study, which has not yet been published, the researchers found that light shone on one leaf of an Arabidopsis thaliana plant caused the whole plant to respond. The response lasted even after the light source was taken away, suggesting the plant remembered the light input.
Different wavelengths of light produce a different response, suggesting the plants use the information to generate protective chemical reactions — like pathogen defense or food production.
Rick Moranis is terrified.
[Pop Sci]
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