Experience and memory of environmental stimuli that indicate future stress can prepare
(prime) organismic stress responses even in species lacking a nervous system. The process …

Unlike animal behavior, behavior in plants is traditionally assumed to be completely
determined either genetically or environmentally. Under this assumption, plants are usually …

A growing number of non-human animal species are being seriously considered as
candidates for sentience, but plants are either forgotten or explicitly excluded from these …

Plants acquire enhanced tolerance to intermittent abiotic stress by employing information
obtained during prior exposure to an environmental disturbance, a process known as …

The central nervous system (CNS) underlies memory, perception, decision-making, and
behavior in numerous organisms. However, neural networks have no monopoly on the …

In complex and ever-changing environments, resources such as food are often scarce and
unevenly distributed in space and time. Therefore, utilizing external cues to locate and …

Developing stress-tolerant plants continues to be the goal of breeders due to their realized
yields and stability. Plant responses to drought have been studied in many different plant …

Hypotheses The drive to survive is a biological universal. Intelligent behaviour is usually
recognized when individual organisms including plants, in the face of fiercely competitive or …

Attention to plant life is currently flourishing across the social sciences and humanities. This
paper introduces recent work in the informal sub-discipline of 'vegetal geography', placing it …

The philosophy of animal minds addresses profound questions about the nature of mind and
the relationships between humans and other animals. In this fully revised and updated …