ReviewPlant signaling & behavior2009
Plant intelligence: why, why not or where?
Review in Plant signaling & behavior, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- From Nature to Technology: Exploring the Potential of Plant-Based Materials and Modified Plants in Biomimetics, Bionics, and Green Innovations.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- From dark to darkness, negative phototropism influences the support-tree location of the massive woody climberPlant signaling & behavior · 2022Article
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- Behaviorist approaches to investigating memory and learning: A primer for synthetic biology and bioengineering.Communicative & integrative biology · 2021Review
- Learning in Plants: Lessons from Mimosa pudica.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Review
- Plant Studies May Lead Us to Rethink the Concept of Behavior.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
- The theater management model of plant memory.Plant signaling & behavior · 2015Article
- Experience teaches plants to learn faster and forget slower in environments where it matters.Oecologia · 2014Article
- The intelligence paradox; will ET get the metabolic syndrome? Lessons from and for Earth.Nutrition & metabolism · 2014Article
- Plant intelligence and attention.Plant signaling & behavior · 2013Article
- Plant intentionality and the phenomenological framework of plant intelligence.Plant signaling & behavior · 2012Article
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Abstract
The concept of plant intelligence, as proposed by Anthony Trewavas, has raised considerable discussion. However, plant intelligence remains loosely defined; often it is either perceived as practically synonymous to Darwinian fitness, or reduced to a mere decorative metaphor. A more strict view can be taken, emphasizing necessary prerequisites such as memory and learning, which requires clarifying the definition of memory itself. To qualify as memories, traces of past events have to be not only stored, but also actively accessed. We propose a criterion for eliminating false candidates of possible plant intelligence phenomena in this stricter sense: an "intelligent" behavior must involve a component that can be approximated by a plausible algorithmic model involving recourse to stored information about past states of the individual or its environment. Re-evaluation of previously presented examples of plant intelligence shows that only some of them pass our test.
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