Chatty tomato, defensible tobacco

Plants maintain lively relationships with their environment; they warn each other with scents, attract beneficial organisms, and often even coordinate their behaviour. Plants remember past events and learn from these experiences. They recognise and protect relatives, harass strangers and form alliances. Under the soil, they form extensive network systems of roots and fungi through which they exchange nutrients and even information - an "Internet of plant communities" of undreamt-of dimensions. Some researchers even consider them intelligent. Florianne Koechlin has cast a spell over this fantastic world of plants. Over the past ten years, the biologist has visited numerous researchers, farmers and philosophers around the world. In her book, which contains both new and updated older texts, s.