Behavior breakthrough: Like animals, plants demonstrate complex ability to integrate information

Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 14:31 in Biology & Nature

Scientists have discovered that a plant's strategy to capture nutrients in the soil is the result of integration of different types of information. They found plants also have the ability to integrate information about the location of both food and competitors. As a result, plants demonstrate unique behavioral strategies to capture soil resources.

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