“Plants are not cognizant. When we cut a leaf, we assume that the plant is suffering. But that's our own anthropomorphism about what's going on.” — Daniel Chamovitz Copy Share Image
“The idea that damage has to be pain is mistaken. We feel pain because we have specific types of receptors called nociceptors which are programmed to respond to pain, not to touch. People can have genetic malfunctions where they feel… — Daniel Chamovitz Copy Share Image
“In his phototropism experiment, he showed that the tip of a shoot sees the light and transfers this information to its midsection to tell… — Daniel Chamovitz Copy Share Image
“A recent (and provocative) study in Science showed that men who simply sniffed negative-emotion-related odorless tears obtained from women showed reduced levels of testosterone… — Daniel Chamovitz Copy Share Image
“Plants are not cognizant. When we cut a leaf, we assume that the plant is suffering. But that's our own anthropomorphism about what's going… — Daniel Chamovitz Copy Share Image
“Darwin found that all plants move in a recurring spiral oscillation, which he termed "circumnutation" (Latin for "circle" or "sway"). This spiral pattern varies… — Daniel Chamovitz Copy Share Image
“They compared the compounds emitted by leaves following bacterial infection with those emitted following an insect feeding. Both treatments resulted in the expression of… — Daniel Chamovitz Copy Share Image
“A plant can be pulled in many directions at once. Sunlight hitting a plant at an angle caises it to bend toward the rays,… — Daniel Chamovitz Copy Share Image
“Flying halfway around the world puts our circadian clock out of sync with the day-night signals, a phenomenon we call jet lag. The circadian… — Daniel Chamovitz Copy Share Image
“In 1924, Frank E. Denny, a scientist from the US Department of Agriculture in Los Angeles, demonstrated that kerosene smoke contains minute amounts of… — Daniel Chamovitz Copy Share Image
“Plants are acutely aware of the world around them. They are aware of their visual environment; they differentiate between red, blue, far red, and… — Daniel Chamovitz Copy Share Image
“While the mechanisms involved in electrochemical signaling are complex, the basic principles are simple. Just as a battery maintains its charge by housing different… — Daniel Chamovitz Copy Share Image
“These weightless plants were placed on a large rotating centrifuge that mimicked gravitation, much as Knight's waterwheel had years and years earlier. The plants… — Daniel Chamovitz Copy Share Image
“My grandmother didn’t study plant biology or agriculture. She didn’t even finish high school. But she knew that she could get a hard avocado… — Daniel Chamovitz Copy Share Image
