Just wanted to point out some research done by
Jagdish Chandra Bose in the early 20th century. According to the article:
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His research in plant stimuli were pioneering, he showed with the help of his newly invented crescograph that plants responded to various stimuli as if they had nervous systems like that of animals. He therefore found a parallelism between animal and plant tissues.
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He claimed that plants can "feel pain, understand affection etc," from the analysis of the nature of variation of the cell membrane potential of plants, under different circumstances. According to him a plant treated with care and affection gives out a different vibration compared to a plant subjected to torture.
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A more detailed article:
Bioelectricity and the rhytms of sensitive plants.
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search in Google scholar lists his publications.