Chatty tomato, defensible tobacco

Plants maintain vibrant relationships with their environment; they warn each other with scent signals, deliberately attract beneficial insects, and often coordinate their behavior. Plants remember past events and learn from these experiences. They recognize and protect relatives, bully strangers, and form alliances. Below the ground, they create extensive networks of roots and fungi through which they exchange nutrients and even information - an "Internet of plant communities" of unprecedented scale. Some researchers even consider them to be intelligent. Florianne Koechlin has been captivated by this fantastic world of plants. Over the past ten years, the biologist has visited numerous researchers, farmers, and philosophers around the globe. In her book, which includes both new and updated older texts, she draws attention to this fascinating subject.