The way plants respond to changes in their environment has only recently started to take off as a discipline—the science, for lack of a better term, of plant intelligence. (“Intelligence” is not a particularly accurate word here, but it’s close enough.) Now a team of scientists from Oxford University in the UK and Tel-Hai College in Israel have come up with a strange and specific study: Can plants assess their environment and take risks?
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