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- đ¤ Speaker: Professor Ottoline Leyser, FRS
- đ Date & Time: Wednesday 02 November 2011, 19:00 - 20:00
- đ Venue: Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road
Abstract
The illusion of inactivity in plants when compared to animals merely reflects a methodological difference of survival in a dynamic environment. Indeed, plants are exquisitely sensitive to multiple inputs from their environment and continuously adjust their growth and development in the absence of any central information processing systems (no brain).
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Professor Ottoline Leyser, FRS
Wednesday 02 November 2011, 19:00-20:00