Does vaccination imply memory?.. Does being warned by another’s volatile metabolites that a herbivore is attacking the population?
(Higher) plants are organized by very different principles than animals; it is a never-ending debate on what constitutes ‘identity’ in them. Without first deciding upon that, can one speak about learning? I don’t think they have it, but their patterns of predetermined answers can be very specific.
Also, there is an interesting study, ‘Kin recognition, not competitive interactions, predicts root allocation in young Cakile edentula seedling pairs’. This seems to be more difficult to do than following the sun!
Of course. Leaves turn to follow the sun, roots grow in the direction of more moist soil...
Is that really learning, or just reacting to stimuli in a fixed, predetermined pattern?
Does vaccination imply memory?.. Does being warned by another’s volatile metabolites that a herbivore is attacking the population?
(Higher) plants are organized by very different principles than animals; it is a never-ending debate on what constitutes ‘identity’ in them. Without first deciding upon that, can one speak about learning? I don’t think they have it, but their patterns of predetermined answers can be very specific.
Also, there is an interesting study, ‘Kin recognition, not competitive interactions, predicts root allocation in young Cakile edentula seedling pairs’. This seems to be more difficult to do than following the sun!