A simple Hopfield-like cellular network model of plant intelligence.

We introduce a simple Hopfield-like cellular-network model to explain a kind of "intelligence" in plants (Trewavas, 2002), especially, the capacity of plants to act as a memory device. Following earlier observations by Indian scientist J.C. Bose (1923), we regard the plant as a network in which each of the elements is connected via negative interactions. We investigate properties of the model by statistical mechanics.