Barely Significant
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Debunking a myth: plant consciousness.

Protoplasma · 2021 · PMC8052213 · PMID 33196907

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not quite significantno p-value reported
The results were a spotty mix of positives and negatives: plants that had been trained on lighted patches sent a significantly greater biomass of ramets to the lighted patches ( p < 0.05) as predicted, but not a greater number of ramets; and then the opposite relationship between number and biomass inexplicably occurred for ramets that had been trained in the shade (except that the p values here were not quite significant—between 0.05 and 0.1).

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