Plant intelligence dux: a comprehensive rebuttal of Kingsland and Taiz: Plant intelligence dux: a comprehensive rebuttal of Kingsland and Taiz: Trewavas.
Intelligence is a fundamental property for all life enabling an increased probability of survival and reproduction under wild circumstances. Kingsland and Taiz (2024) think that plants are not intelligent but seem unaware of the extensive literature about intelligence, memory, learning and chromatin...
| Published in: | Protoplasma Vol. 262; no. 2; pp. 255 - 267 |
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Springer Nature
Mar2025
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