Do Plants Think?

 Do Plants Think?

Scientist Daniel Chamovitz unveils the surprising world of plants that see, feel, smell—and remember!

Plants are intelligent, that they have minds of their own'because they are, really, computational systems.

Living beings, even the simplest ones, even the cell, are already engaged in an autonomous struggle to maintain themselves and survive. Living beings, even the simplest ones, already have something like rudimentary minds — motivated sensitivities and useful interests — and so they are way beyond Watson(SUPER COMPUTER)."

As sentient life forms that have “tropic” and “nastic” responses to stimuli,plants can sense water, light, and gravity — they can even defend themselves and send signals to other plants to warn that danger is here, or near.

A Washington State University study found that plants have feelings and can distinguish when touch starts and stops. “Even without nerves, plants can sense when something touches them and when it lets go,” said researchers. 

Plants do respond to the sound of your voice. In a study conducted by the Royal Horticultural Society, research demonstrated that plants did respond to human voices.

A new study out of the La Trobe Institute for Agriculture and Food has found that most plants are extremely sensitive to touch, and even a light touch can significantly stunt their growth.

Plants react favourably to low levels of vibrations, around 115-250hz being ideal.

Do plants know they're alive?

Roots of plants are exquisitely conscious and aware of self and not-self and engage in sophisticated interactions with a wide range of living organisms. The plant roots enter into symbiotic relationships with bacteria, fungi, and communicate with other plants that are highly sophisticated.

Plants can sense a lot about their environment and it can cause them stress.

Plants evolved to be incredibly sensitive to their environment in order to survive. Research into their awareness has revealed the incredible ways plants sense their environment: from "hearing" their predators, "smelling" their neighbours1and even "mimicking" the shapes of their plant hosts.

“listening out” for potential pollinators.

Plants not only “hear” nearby pollinators and predators, but also prepare themselves for a visit.

Finding nutrients in the soil and avoiding rooting near toxic substances. Most incredibly, plants can also “sniff” out their neighbours and identify their relatives. Many tomato growers know the parasitic dodder vine , which locates and grows towards its host by sensing volatile chemicals lingering in the air.

Below ground, plants are also communicating. By partnering with fungi, tree roots form large mycorrhizal networks with one another.

PLANT COMMUNITY' just like human community:

Nearly every tree in a forest was connected to the network. Trees use this network to pass carbon, nutrients, water, and even alarm signals to each other. Parent trees can also detect their saplings and send nutrients and water to them, ensuring their survival. It’s an essential lifeline to saplings growing in dark areas of the forest.

Plants don’t “see” in a way that is recognisable to us, but they can detect many different forms of light, from ultraviolet through to infrared. One of the best-known examples of this is juvenile sunflowers (Helianthus sp.), which perform heliotropism; where the sunflower faces the sun to grow in the direction of the sunlight. Tracking the sun’s movement helps the plant to maximise the amount of sunlight they receive for photosynthesis.

Can plants recognize people?

Plants, the book revealed, can make their own trace elements through fusion, just like the sun. More, they can recognize people. If someone committed a crime in front of them — plants' fear could be measured with a simple lie detector test. And the book took it one step further, claiming that plants are conscious.

plant cells communicate with each other in a way similar to animal cells — using action potentials, a form of bio-electricity.

plants behave like chameleons 

Boquila trifoliata is a fascinating climbing plant, native to Chile and Argentina. It is unique in that it appears to mimic the plant on which it grows, changing its leaf shape, size, colour, and even vein patterns. 

Boquila is able to mimic artificial, plastic plants as well. While admittedly, the mechanisms for how Boquila mimics its host is entirely unknown, there is something fascinating happening in this unusual plant.

More incredibly, when wounded or under attack by pathogens, plants produce their own anaesthetic compounds, which act to lessen their injuries.

The plant experience, although seemingly inanimate, is complex and ever-changing. Whether they’re listening out for friend or foe, reaching out for family, building communities, or hiding from predators, plants are highly attuned to their environment and constantly reacting. Perhaps we’re not so different, after all.

 

In the creation, humans are very tiny community. we the homo-sapiens think that the entire nature is for the sake of humans only and neglect all other species and in the process we became dangerous culprits for the extinction of many species on this blue planet!

Truth is stranger than fiction. The tiny sapling  growing under your feet knows you better than your better half!

Plant right trees @ right place @ right time.

                         वसुंधरा उत्पत्ति स्थिति लाया हेतु 

"Nature is the reason behind creation, preservation and destruction".