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Plants may experience 'optical illusions' that affect their direction of growth
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a technology story. Phys.org Breaking News is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 2 Nov 2026, 23:00 UTC. The headline in use is “Plants may experience 'optical illusions' that affect their direction of growth”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
A new study from Tel Aviv University reveals how plants, despite having neither a brain nor a nervous system, integrate light coming from multiple directions to determine where to grow. The researchers show how this process emerges from local sensing across the stem, without the need for centralized information processing.
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Plants may experience 'optical illusions' that affect their direction of growth
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