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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Future Perception in Plants

Author : Ariel Novoplansky

Published in: Anticipation Across Disciplines

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Although a few of the earliest naturalists, such as Theophrastus, made concrete observations regarding the sophisticated ways by which plants sense and respond to their environments, the prevailing attitude toward plants has been based on the Aristotelian paradigm, that at their low rank, slightly above minerals on Scala Naturae, plants are mere non-sentient soil-eating blobs. However, accumulating evidence demonstrates that plants are able to not only precisely gauge and respond to their immediate environments but can also perceive, integrate and adaptively respond to myriad internal and external signals and cues that are correlated with their future environments, in ways that maximize their life-time performance.

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Metadata
Title
Future Perception in Plants
Author
Ariel Novoplansky
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Anticipation Across Disciplines

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-22598-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-22599-9

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22599-9_5

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