  Based on laboratory based growth of plant-like structures from inorganic
materials, we present new theory for the emergence of plant structure at a
range of scales dictated by levels of ionization (charge density), which can be
traced directly back to proteins transcribed from genetic code and their
interaction with external sources of charge (such as CO2) in real plants.
Beyond a critical percolation threshold, individual charge induced quantum
poten- tials (driven by dissipative systems) merge to form a complex,
interconnected geometric web, creating macroscopic quantum potentials, which
lead to the emergence of macroscopic quantum processes. The assembly of
molecules into larger, ordered structures operates within these charge-induced
coherent bosonic fields, acting as a structuring force in competition with
exterior potentials. Within these processes many of the phenomena associated
with standard quantum theory are recovered, including quantization,
non-dissipation, self-organization, confinement, structuration conditioned by
the environment, environmental fluctuations leading to macroscopic quantum
decoherence and evolutionary time described by a time dependent
Schrodinger-like equation, which describes models of bifurcation and
duplication. The work provides a strong case for the existence of
quintessence-like behaviour, with macroscopic quantum potentials and associated
forces having their equivalence in standard quantum mechanics and gravitational
forces in general relativity. The theory offers new insight into evolutionary
processes in structural biology, with selection at any point in time, being
made from a wide range of spontaneously emerging potential structures
(dependent on conditions), which offer advantage for a specific organism. This
is valid for both the emergence of structures from a prebiotic medium and the
wide range of different plant structures we see today.
