==Motivation== 
 I am unable to find any support for the idea that Bose was knighted for "his laboratory proof of plant sentience or consciousness". In fact,  he seems to have not held this particular belief at all: 
 "He insisted that not only could no line be drawn between plants and animals but that his researches had shown there was no line between living and nonliving matter." (http://www.bookrags.com/Jagdish_Chandra_Bose) 
 More to the point, the article states that this is a reason some people adopt a fruitarian diet, I am unable to find substantiation for this.