DO PLANTS "FEEL" PAIN??????????

[Jonathan B. Marder]

Plants do not feel pain as *WE* know it. Perhaps they feel
pain as *THEY* know it. The real answer depends on how you
define pain. e.g. if you define pain as a response to an unpleasant 
stimulus, plants definitely do feel pain.


Jonathan B. Marder                 ,      Department of Agricultural Botany
E-mail: MARDER at agri.huji.ac.il     |      The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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