For an interaction to be meaningful, i.e. 'intelligent', pre-conditioning does not seem to be possible. If the interaction would be based on pre-conditioned responses it would imply that reality is to be perceived as deterministic.
Plants are conscious and interact with intelligence
Evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano insists that plants are intelligent, and she’s not speaking metaphorically. “My work is not about metaphors at all,” Gagliano tells Forbes. “When I talk about learning, I mean learning. When I talk about memory, I mean memory.”
Gagliano’s behavioral experiments on plants suggest that—while plants don’t have a central nervous system or a brain—they behave like intelligent beings.
Gagliano, who began her career as a marine scientist, says her work with plants triggered a profound epiphany. “The main realization for me wasn’t the fact that plants themselves must be something more than we give them credit for, but what if everything around us is much more than we give it credit for, whether it’s animal, plant, bacteria, whatever.”
https://qz.com/1294941/a-debate-over-pl ... uman-mind/
The seeds and fruits of plants are presumably data-packets for animals. Plants also communicate in real-time through other animals, for example by talking to insects via ultra-sound that in turn forward information to bigger animals.
The question is: does Nature (life) have a purpose? If there were to be a purpose of life, wouldn't that imply that there is a greater purpose for Nature of which the human is a part? In that case, real-time interaction between plants and animals may be vital, not just for a mere survival but to be able to go beyond what exists, i.e. to serve the purpose of Nature ( "good") in the best way.