Amazing Plants
- Testing Botanical Intelligence
- "If you define intelligence as the capacity to solve problems, plants have a lot to teach us… Not only are they 'smart' in how they grow, adapt and thrive, they do it without neuroses. Intelligence isn't only about having a brain."
- If Flowers Lost Their Pollinators
- "A rare 'live' study looking at what happens when you deprive plants of pollinators shows that evolution can step in to help them cope. But don’t get the champagne out just yet."
- When Flowering Plants Re-Made The World
- "The flowers' secret… was to exploit a change in soil fertility, and create a feedback loop that allowed new flowers to feed off dead ones."
- Not Depending On The Kindness Of Strangers
- "It is the only known plant in the world able to self-irrigate."
- A Symbiotic Relationship That Moves Mountains
- "Few plants can grow without soil and even fewer are capable of growing on nothing but bare rock.Yet some species of desert cactus manage this extraordinary feat, and now scientists have worked out how."
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