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Plant intelligence is a field of plant biology which aims to understand how plants process the information they obtain from their environment. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Plant intelligence has been defined as "any type of intentional and flexible behavior that is beneficial and enables the organism to achieve its goal".
Stefano Mancuso (born 9 May 1965) is an Italian botanist and writer, best known for his research on plant intelligence. [1] He is professor of the Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry department at his alma mater, the University of Florence. [2]
Monica Gagliano (born 1976) [1] is an ecologist known for her research on plant intelligence.. Gagliano is a Research Associate Professor in the field of evolutionary ecology at Southern Cross University in Lismore, Australia, where she directs the Biological Intelligence lab. [2]
Plant cognition is the study of the mental capacities of plants The main article for this category is Plant intelligence . See also: Category:Animal cognition
Plant perception is the ability of plants to sense and respond to the environment by adjusting their morphology and physiology. [1] Botanical research has revealed that plants are capable of reacting to a broad range of stimuli, including chemicals, gravity, light, moisture, infections, temperature, oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations, parasite infestation, disease, physical disruption ...
This raises issues of plant intelligence which is defined to be able to actively adapt to any stimulus presented to the species from the environment. [10] [ failed verification ] Plants are therefore clever in sensing the environmental stimulus e.g. young sunflowers that face the sun for their growth.
Trewavas was born in 1939 and educated at John Roans Grammar School, [2] Blackheath, London which he left in 1958 with five A levels. He obtained both his undergraduate degree and Ph.D in biochemistry at University College London investigating aspects of phosphate metabolism of plants, with special reference to the action of growth hormones on Avena.
Ethnoecology is a field of environmental anthropology, and has derived much of its characteristics from classic as well as more modern theorists. Franz Boas was one of the first anthropologists to question unilineal evolution , the belief that all societies follow the same, unavoidable path towards Western civilization .