Natural Science Forum / Biology / Botany / October 2007

I need help.
I am having a debate over wether plants have feelings or not.
I say no they do not  others say they do.
I have said that plants need a nervous system and a brain  also I have

Can somebody suggest an ID for this dainty species of (presumably)
Solanum?
http://www.box.net/shared/static/44y1d6r8qe.jpg
It came from a packet of seeds of geographically unspecifed  "flowers

Google Scholar finds
* Weese & Bohs, A Three-Gene Phylogeny of the Genus Solanum
(Solanaceae), Systematic Botany 32(2): 445-463 (2007)
at

Usually they are unripe at the supermarket,
but if I leave them sitting on a shelf they
go mouldy.
Is there anything to coat them with to

I am not actually a botanist, but am interested in ways of dealing
with presence of the vacuole in plant cells in fluorescence
microscopy. I understand that the vacuole, if large, will push the
rest of the cell contents to the periphery squishing all the

Do potato plants have a summer time dormancy in their genetics, for I
notice they
do well only in Spring and Fall.
Archimedes Plutonium