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MG, CIA, and MD conceived, designed, and executed this study and MG wrote the manuscript. No other person is entitled to authorship.

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Correspondence to Monica Gagliano.

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Communicated by Richard Karban.

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Gagliano, M., Abramson, C.I. & Depczynski, M. Plants learn and remember: lets get used to it. Oecologia 186, 29–31 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-017-4029-7

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