You can talk to plants and make them happy ... yup, and likely they can
return the favor!
Did you know that Francis Darwin (Charles' son)
specialized in Plant Physiology ... and stirred the pot just like his dad
did. Apparently both Charles and Francis were proponents of the idea that
plants were intelligent. This is field is starting to pick up steam! check
Brilliant
Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence
by Stefano Mancuso
Turns out Francis wasn't terribly shy ... Brilliant Green recounts Francis
Darwin's opening gambit ...
on September 2, 1908, at the opening of the annual congress
of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, he threw
caution to the wind and declared that plants are intelligent beings.
also, take a look at
- Trewavas,
A. (2014). Plant behaviour and intelligence. OUP
Oxford.
- van Loon, L. C. (2016). The intelligent behavior of plants. Trends
in plant science, 21(4), 286-294.
- Marder, M. (2013). Plant-thinking: A philosophy of vegetal life.
New York: Columbia University Press.
- Trewavas, A. (2016). Intelligence, cognition, and language of green
plants. Frontiers in psychology, 7, 588.
- Trewavas, A. J., and Baluska, F. (2011). The ubiquity of
consciousness, cognition and intelligence in life. EMBO Rep.12,
1221–1225. doi: 10.1038/embor.2011.218
- Trewavas, A. (1999). How plants learn. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, 96(8), 4216-4218.
- Thaler DS. 1994. The evolution of genetic intelligence. Science264:
1698-1699.√
A lot was motivated by Barb's Nobel Prize talk - McClintock, B.
(1984). The significance of responses of the genome to challenge. Science 226,
792–801. doi: 10.1126/science.15739260
there's more to this story ... check later .