Page 128 - Photosynthesis: The Green Miracle

Adnan Oktar

how the other branches abide by this choice, continue to preoccupy scien-
tists. The only thing they can be certain of is that there is a kind of part-
nership among the branches. 61
In fact, there is a partnership not just among the branches, but in the
entire organism—as in the distribution of tasks inside the tree. If in spring
you cut off the branch of a willow and plant in wet soil, it will produce

roots and new shoots. This is not just an organism, but also organization.
The plant cells literally know from which lower region the roots need to
emerge, and the same for the buds that form the shoots. Even a small por-
tion of the tree behaves as if it knew all the details regarding the tree as a
whole.
Research into plants has permitted a most important miracle to be
perceived. There is a communications system among the unconscious
cells of the plant. Just like the cells of humans and animals, plant cells
communicate with one another and thus display mass behavior.

Hormones
A hormone is a kind of protein that regulates essential systems in liv-
ing things. Various hormones are produced in plant cells—miraculous
molecules that have been created to determine how the plant should be-

have under good and adverse conditions.
For example, if new shoots are enjoying good light and air, but the
roots endure a dry environment with plentiful sunlight but little water,
then the plant requires a deeper, stronger taproot. So perfect is the system
inside the plant that the requisite measures are immediately taken. The
plant’s cells increase the production of a hormone known as auxin which,
upon reaching the root cells, commands them to divide and multiply.
Thus new roots are produced. 62
How do the cells that produce the hormone auxin know that the

roots right at the bottom of the plant need to grow longer? How do they
learn the chemical formulae that will enable this to happen? And why do

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