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Plants make life promoting decisions too.

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Plants reveal decision-making abilities under competition

Date: December 21, 2017
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Source: Universitaet Tübingen
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Summary: Plants can choose between alternative competitive responses according to the stature and densities of their opponents, biologists have discovered. A new study reveals that plants can evaluate the competitive ability of their neighbors and optimally match their responses to them.

This information may be obvious to some, but if not or if interested read the full article via the following link:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171221122316.htm

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  • Flipping plants...never liked them...I am now planning to give a small shrub in my garden power of attorney over me.....

    Clever sods!

    I think i display lateral avoidance behaviour.....

    "When the plants were under treatments simulating short-dense neighbors, which presented competitors that where too dense to avoid laterally but could be outgrown vertically, Potentilla reptansshowed the highest confrontational vertical growth. However, under simulated tall-dense neighbors, which could not be outgrown either vertically or laterally, plants displayed the highest shade tolerance behavior. Lastly, under tall-sparse neighbors, which could only be avoided laterally, plants exhibited the highest lateral-avoidance behaviors."

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  • Flipping plants...never liked them...I am now planning to give a small shrub in my garden power of attorney over me.....

    Clever sods!

    I think i display lateral avoidance behaviour.....

    "When the plants were under treatments simulating short-dense neighbors, which presented competitors that where too dense to avoid laterally but could be outgrown vertically, Potentilla reptansshowed the highest confrontational vertical growth. However, under simulated tall-dense neighbors, which could not be outgrown either vertically or laterally, plants displayed the highest shade tolerance behavior. Lastly, under tall-sparse neighbors, which could only be avoided laterally, plants exhibited the highest lateral-avoidance behaviors."

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