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Abstract
Information processing and storage underpins many biological processes of vital importance to organism survival. Like animals, plants also acquire, store and process environmental information relevant to their fitness, and this is particularly evident in their decision-making. The control of plant organ growth and timing of their developmental transitions are carefully orchestrated by the collective action of many connected computing agents, the cells, in what could be addressed as distributed computation. Here, we discuss some examples of biological information processing in plants, with special interest in the connection to formal computational models drawn from theoretical frameworks. Research into biological processes with a computational perspective may yield new insights and provide a general framework for information processing across different substrates. This article is part of the theme issue 'Liquid brains, solid brains: How distributed cognitive architectures process information'.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 20180370 |
Journal | Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences |
Volume | 374 |
Issue number | 1774 |
Early online date | 22 Apr 2019 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 10 Jun 2019 |
Keywords
- biological computation
- computational networks
- connectome
- information processing
- plant
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Cell-type-specific environmental signal integration networks controlling a binary developmental switch during the life cycle of plants
Bassel, G.
Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council
28/04/14 → 27/04/17
Project: Research Councils