Study shows plants appear able to forget memories when they are not useful

Monday, February 22, 2016 - 09:00 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org)—A small team of researchers with Australian National University Canberra, has found evidence that suggests that plants are able to reset a memory that has not been proven to be useful, in essence, forgetting things after they have been stored. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the team describes genetic studies they undertook with plants and what they found as a result.

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