Thinking like a vegetable: how plants decide what to do
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Presenter: Ottoline Leyser
Published: January 2010
Age: 18-22 and upwards
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Type: Lectures
Source/institution: Royal Society
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Plants monitor a wide range of information from their surrounding environment. They combine information of multiple sorts, and respond in an appropriate way. In plants there is no brain, and the information processing is distributed across the plant body.