WHAT DO PLANTS KNOW? A GUIDE TO THE SENSES

Discover the fascinating world of plants and their extraordinary abilities! Do plants really have senses? Can they "know" what is happening around them? This book takes you on a journey through the mysterious world of plant perception.

• Understand how plants perceive light and smells.
• Learn how they react to touch and remember experiences.
• Discover the latest scientific findings on the abilities of plants.
• Explore surprising similarities between the plant and animal worlds.
• See for yourself that plants communicate and adapt to their environment.
• Find out how plants detect and fight pests.
• Change your view of plants as passive elements of the landscape.

Daniel Chamovitz, a biologist and science popularizer, invites us in his book What Do Plants Know to discover the mysterious world of plants, which turns out to be much more complicated than we thought. Although plants do not have brains, eyes or ears, they can receive and process information about the world around them - they see light, smell scents, react to touch and remember past experiences.

The new, updated edition of the book takes into account the latest scientific discoveries, which in many cases change previous ideas about the abilities of plants. Chamovitz explains how the mechanisms that help plants survive are closely related to those that work in animal organisms, including humans. He also presents the history of research on plant perception, from Darwin's pioneering discoveries to modern genetic experiments, which show surprising similarities between the plant and animal worlds.

In an accessible and fascinating way, the book compares plant equivalents of human senses, showing how plants communicate, adapt and react to threats - even though they cannot move. We will learn how trees sense their neighborhood, why some flowers emit fragrance at certain times of the day, and how plants detect and fight pests.

Chamovitz does not fall into pseudoscientific speculation - his book is based on solid research and reliable evidence, but is written in an accessible and engaging way. Thanks to it, we begin to perceive plants not as passive elements of the landscape, but as extremely complex organisms that have their own ways of perceiving reality. What Do Plants Know is a book that changes our view of the world and encourages us to reflect on how much we can learn from nature. After reading it, it will be difficult to pass by a tree, shrub or flower indifferently - because each of them knows more about the world than we think.