Skip to main navigation menu Skip to main content Skip to site footer
Plant Science Today (PST)

Opinion

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2014)

Plants for thought

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14719/pst.2014.1.1.9
Submitted
3 December 2013
Published
01-01-2014

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.

References

  1. Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. (1826). “Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es.” [Tell me what you eat and I shall tell you what you are]. In Brillat-Savarin, Physiologie du Gout, ou Meditations de Gastronomie Transcendante. Paris: A. Sautelet.
  2. Beezhold, B., L., & Johnston, C., S. (2012). Restriction of meat, fish, and poultry in omnivores improves mood: a pilot randomized controlled trial. Nutr J., 14(11), 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-11-9
  3. Sarris, J. (2013). St. John's wort for the treatment of psychiatric disorders. Psychiatr Clin North Am., 36(1), 65-72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psc.2013.01.004
  4. Virmani, A., Pinto, L., Binienda, Z., & Ali, S. (2013). Food, nutrigenomics, and neurodegeneration--neuroprotection by what you eat! Mol Neurobiol. 48(2), 353-62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12035-013-8498-3

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.