ArticleAnnals of botany2004
Aspects of plant intelligence: an answer to Firn.
Article in Annals of botany, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Plant "intelligence" and the misuse of historical sources as evidence.Protoplasma · 2025Review
- Plant intelligence dux: a comprehensive rebuttal of Kingsland and Taiz.Protoplasma · 2025Article
- Induced resistance to herbivory and the intelligent plant.Plant signaling & behavior · 2024Review
- Application of naturally occurring mechanical forces inPlant signaling & behavior · 2021Review
- Plants are intelligent, here's how.Annals of botany · 2020Article
- The botanical multiverse of Peter Barlow.Communicative & integrative biology · 2019Review
- Putting primary metabolism into perspective to obtain better fruits.Annals of botany · 2018Review
- Epigenetic Memory as a Basis for Intelligent Behavior in Clonal Plants.Frontiers in plant science · 2016Article
- Plant intentionality and the phenomenological framework of plant intelligence.Plant signaling & behavior · 2012Article
- Plant intelligence: why, why not or where?Plant signaling & behavior · 2009Review
- The quest for cognition in plant neurobiology.Plant signaling & behavior · 2007Article
- Plant intelligence.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2005Review
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Abstract
In a recent 'Invited Review', I stated the case for plant intelligence, provided definitions and outlined some of the consequences, illustrating them with examples. A short critique of this concept by Firn is given in the preceding 'Viewpoint' and rebuttals of the criticisms it contains are presented in the present article. The importance of plant intelligence as an emergent property resulting from interactions and communication of the component tissues is re-stated. The contentions made by Firn that plants are collectives of physically joined organs but acting in relative isolation of each other is subject to critical analysis and found to be contradicted by much established literature. Viewing plants as expressing intelligent behaviour should lead to better understanding of their ecological success and indicate experiments to test the basic concept.
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