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What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses

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By Daniel Chamovitz

Web edition: July 27, 2012
Print edition: August 11, 2012; Vol.182 #3 (p. 30)

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Plants have senses too, a biologist shows. Though they can’t hear Chopin they do have ways to essentially touch, see and taste the world around them.

Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012, 173 p., $23

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  • Reading this book now. Enjoying it very much. He explains the research he highlights in terms a layman can understand. I'm a gardener and some of the topics discussed have applied to this. I recommend the book.
    Niki Stashuk Niki Stashuk
    Jul. 30, 2012 at 2:59pm
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