Plants for thought
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https://doi.org/10.14719/pst.2014.1.1.9Keywords:
Secondary metabolites,Abstract
The title may be misleading in suggesting that plants think, even though this is an interesting question. The argument here is how plants have evolved either by accident or by some ‘natural’ intelligence to exert effects on our thoughts.Downloads
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