Michael Brooks (“Five insights challenging science’s unshakable ‘truths’,” The Guardian, Jun. 28, 2014) wrote … “Life, he [physicist Erwin Schrödinger] decided, had to be built on a scale that would bury all the weird quantum effects. But Schrödinger was wrong. Plants, for instance, use quantum theory to harvest energy from the sun.” The figure listed…

Peter Tompkins & Christopher Bird (The Secret Life of Plants, 1973) wrote … “Bose’s experiments [...] showed him that in plants their movement, the ascent of their sap, and their growth were due to energy absorbed from their surroundings, which they could hold latent or store for future use.” The figures listed below (figures 160…

Peter Tompkins & Christopher Bird (The Secret Life of Plants, 1973) wrote … “Bose experimented with heat and cold to ascertain the optimal conditions under which plant movement was best elicited.” The figures listed below (figures 158 & 159) can be viewed in Professor Bose’s book. Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose (Plant Response as a Means…

František Baluška, Stefano Mancuso, Dieter Volkmann, & Peter W Barlow (“The ‘root-brain’ hypothesis of Charles and Francis Darwin Revival after more than 125 years,” Plant Signaling & Behavior, Dec. 2009) wrote … “Recent advances in plant molecular biology, cellular biology, electrophysiology and ecology, unmask plants as sensory and communicative organisms, characterized by active, problem-solving behavior….

Harry R. Brown (“The theory of the rise of sap in trees: some historical and conceptual remarks,” 2012) wrote … “For hundreds of millions of years, plants have existed which propel water vertically from their roots through stems into their leaves. Wood itself evolved around 400 million years ago in all likelihood primarily to improve…