Link: Smarty Plants: Inside the World's Only Plant-Intelligence Lab.
The International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology (LINV) specializes in "plant neurobiology", the study of "signalling and communication at all levels of plant organization, starting from single molecules and ending at ecological communities." The lab is promoting a "view [that] sees plants as information processing organisms with complex communication throughout the individual plant. Plants are as sophisticated in behavior as animals but their potential has been masked because it operates on time scales many orders of magnitude less than that operating in animals."
A number of studies are explored the chemical and physical signaling mechanisms in plants. A feasibility study is looking at the concept of devloping 'plantoids' for soil exploration of other planets.
Although one can argue about the definition of intelligence, it is clear from research such as the Influence of Global Warming on 'Greenup' that plants can display unexpectedly complex behavior.
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