Plant Cognition and Behavior: From Environmental Awareness to Synaptic Circuits Navigating Root Apices

摘要: Plants emerge as cognitive and intelligent organisms which coevolve with humans since the first flowering plants recognized primates potential frugivores. Later, when started to settle down initiated agriculture, our coevolution crop entered a new phase allowed evolution of civilization. Here we summarize recent advances in understanding relying, similarly animals humans, on learning cognition use their plant-specific behavior for survival. Although such are sessile, organs move actively these movements active manipulation environment, both abiotic biotic. Moreover, major strategy is control animal pollinators seed dispersers by providing them food enriched not only nutritive but also manipulative addictive compounds. There several examples supremacy over animals.