researchers are discovering how they see, hear, feel – and even remember
- Written by Samarth Kulshrestha, Research Fellow in Molecular Biology, University of Canterbury
Getty ImagesPlants are often seen as passive organisms, rooted in one place and largely unable to react to the world around them.
But a new field of research is challenging these assumptions and showing that plants are as sophisticated as animals in detecting and adjusting to environmental signals.
Plants can perceive light through specialised...





