Ah I remember this paper - there was some pretty amusing back-and-forth sniping that emerged from it (ignoring the slightly more respectful alternative viewpoints and disputations at the time e.g Firn et al [1] and Trewavas' reply [2]).
Several years later Alpi et al [3] took (a 36 author) swipe at the original Trevawas paper linked above and the discussion/field (e.g. [4]) it provoked. Essentially "no you are wrong and we all agree".
Then, never one to be deterred by anyone else, Trevawas replied with this letter [5] as did Brenner [6].
All in all it was quite an amusing little academic slapfight.
There was quite a nice New Yorker article talking the general idea of the "plant intelligence" thing if anyone is interested [7].
I can't remember where I read (might have been on here) that there is a taboo in botany against publishing results about plant intelligence because some guy wrote this book and tinhats started taking it seriously:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-Life-Plants-Fascinating/dp/...
Several years later Alpi et al [3] took (a 36 author) swipe at the original Trevawas paper linked above and the discussion/field (e.g. [4]) it provoked. Essentially "no you are wrong and we all agree". Then, never one to be deterred by anyone else, Trevawas replied with this letter [5] as did Brenner [6].
All in all it was quite an amusing little academic slapfight.
There was quite a nice New Yorker article talking the general idea of the "plant intelligence" thing if anyone is interested [7].
[1] - http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/93/4/345
[2] - http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/93/4/353.long
[3] - http://web1.sssup.it/pubblicazioni/ugov_files/302981_2007_23...
[4] - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1360138506...
[5] - http://www.linv.org/images/about_pdf/Trends%202007%20Trewava...
[6] - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1360138507...
[7] - http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/23/the-intelligent...