Unlike animal behavior, behavior in plants is traditionally assumed to be completely
determined either genetically or environmentally. Under this assumption, plants are usually …

Plant roots host numerous microorganisms around and inside their roots, forming a
community known as the root microbiome. An increasing bulk of research is underlining the …

Despite the remarkable cognitive power, humans are not alien beings living in their isolated
universe but part of the Earth's biosphere–a dynamic, intelligent system. The working of the …

A growing number of non-human animal species are being seriously considered as
candidates for sentience, but plants are either forgotten or explicitly excluded from these …

Seminal scientific papers positing that mycorrhizal fungal networks can distribute carbon (C)
among plants have stimulated a popular narrative that overstory trees, or 'mother trees' …

Soft robotics aims at creating systems with improved performance of movement and
adaptability in unknown, challenging, environments and with higher level of safety during …

Although we have to welcome the renewed interest in socio-materiality in organization
studies, I claim that we are yet to understand what taking matter seriously really means. The …

There are growing doubts about the true role of the common mycorrhizal networks (CMN or
wood wide web) connecting the roots of trees in forests. We question the claims of a …

Under natural conditions, plants are always associated with a well-orchestrated community
of microbes—the phytomicrobiome. The nature and degree of microbial effect on the plant …

This white paper lays out a vision of research and development in the field of artificial
intelligence for the next decade (and beyond). Its denouement is a cyber-physical …