kingakim

I see, I understand that fundamentally chemicals are signals. I guess what I meant was: could they use this basic "computation model" to pass complex messages? For example, provided a plant is aware of it's distance from another nearby connected plant, could it indicate via chemical signals that the soil is richer here, grow your roots in this direction, conversely, the soil is toxic here, grow your roots in the opposite direction?

So just to clarify, this network is used primarily for transferring nutrients, chemicals and the like? Not signals(data). Does the fact that plants respond differently to differing stimuli imply that they have some information processing mechanism?

You don't think $10 for someone's opinion is a tad pricey?

I don't think the camera actually records heat, but rather the black body radiation which is a function of an object's temperature, which is therefore light.