Forestry

Plant life

Ecology

Neuroscience

Biology

Variety (cybernetics)

Diversity (politics)

Trait

Computer science

Anthropology

Evolutionary biology

Geography

Categorization

Life history theory

Sociology

Artificial intelligence

Programming language

Life history

Adaptation (eye)

Nature

Plants cope with the environment in a variety of ways, and ecological analyses attempt to capture this through life-history strategies or trait-based categorization. These approaches are limited because they treat the trade-off mechanisms that underlie plant responses as a black box. Approaches that involve the molecular or physiological analysis of plant responses to the environment have elucidated intricate connections between developmental and environmental signals, but in only a few well-studied model species. By considering diversity in the plant response to the environment as the adaptation of an information-processing network, new directions can be found for the study of life-history strategies, trade-offs and evolution in plants.

The plant perceptron connects environment to development