A pea plant before it yields mature leaves.

Plants Like Us

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 4, 2012

Daniel Chamovitz, director of the Manna Center for Plant Biosciences at Tel Aviv University and author of What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses, talks about how plants relate to the world through their senses -- and the DNA they share with humans.

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