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Communication in Plants

Author : František Baluška
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540285164
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Communication in Plants by : František Baluška

Download or read book Communication in Plants written by František Baluška and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plant neurobiology is a newly emerging field of plant sciences. It covers signalling and communication at all levels of biological organization – from molecules up to ecological communities. In this book, plants are presented as intelligent and social organisms with complex forms of communication and information processing. Authors from diverse backgrounds such as molecular and cellular biology, electrophysiology, as well as ecology treat the most important aspects of plant communication, including the plant immune system, abilities of plants to recognize self, signal transduction, receptors, plant neurotransmitters and plant neurophysiology. Further, plants are able to recognize the identity of herbivores and organize the defence responses accordingly. The similarities in animal and plant neuronal/immune systems are discussed too. All these hidden aspects of plant life and behaviour will stimulate further intense investigations in order to understand the communicative plants in their whole complexity.

Plant Sensing & Communication

Author : Richard Karban
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022626484X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Book Synopsis Plant Sensing & Communication by : Richard Karban

Download or read book Plant Sensing & Communication written by Richard Karban and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The news that a flowering weed—mousear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana)—can sense the particular chewing noise of its most common caterpillar predator and adjust its chemical defenses in response led to headlines announcing the discovery of the first “hearing” plant. As plants lack central nervous systems (and, indeed, ears), the mechanisms behind this “hearing” are unquestionably very different from those of our own acoustic sense, but the misleading headlines point to an overlooked truth: plants do in fact perceive environmental cues and respond rapidly to them by changing their chemical, morphological, and behavioral traits. In Plant Sensing and Communication, Richard Karban provides the first comprehensive overview of what is known about how plants perceive their environments, communicate those perceptions, and learn. Facing many of the same challenges as animals, plants have developed many similar capabilities: they sense light, chemicals, mechanical stimulation, temperature, electricity, and sound. Moreover, prior experiences have lasting impacts on sensitivity and response to cues; plants, in essence, have memory. Nor are their senses limited to the processes of an individual plant: plants eavesdrop on the cues and behaviors of neighbors and—for example, through flowers and fruits—exchange information with other types of organisms. Far from inanimate organisms limited by their stationary existence, plants, this book makes unquestionably clear, are in constant and lively discourse.

Thus Spoke the Plant

Author : Monica Gagliano
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1623172438
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (231 download)

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Book Synopsis Thus Spoke the Plant by : Monica Gagliano

Download or read book Thus Spoke the Plant written by Monica Gagliano and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A research scientist’s fascinating study of plant communication reveals how we “have been misunderstanding plants, and ourselves, for all of history” (The Paris Review). “A compelling story of discovery . . . [that] will change the way you see the world”—for fans of The Hidden Life of Trees (Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass) In this “phytobiography”—a collection of stories written in partnership with a plant—research scientist Monica Gagliano shares genuine first-hand accounts from her research into plant communication and cognition. By transcending the view of plants as the objects of scientific materialism, Gagliano encourages us to rethink plants as people—beings with subjectivity, consciousness, and volition, and hence having the capacity for their own perspectives and voices. The book draws on up-close-and-personal encounters with the plants themselves, as well as plant shamans, indigenous elders, and mystics from around the world and integrates these experiences with an incredible research journey and the groundbreaking scientific discoveries that emerged from it. Gagliano has published numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers on how plants have a Pavlov-like response to stimuli and can learn, remember, and communicate to neighboring plants. She has pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics, for the first time experimentally demonstrating that plants emit their own 'voices' and, moreover, detect and respond to the sounds of their environments. By demonstrating experimentally that learning is not the exclusive province of animals, Gagliano has re-ignited the discourse on plant subjectivity and ethical and legal standing. This is the story of how she made those discoveries and how the plants helped her along the way.

Biocommunication of Plants

Author : Guenther Witzany
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642235239
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis Biocommunication of Plants by : Guenther Witzany

Download or read book Biocommunication of Plants written by Guenther Witzany and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-01-22 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plants are sessile, highly sensitive organisms that actively compete for environmental resources both above and below the ground. They assess their surroundings, estimate how much energy they need for particular goals, and then realise the optimum variant. They take measures to control certain environmental resources. They perceive themselves and can distinguish between ‘self’ and ‘non-self’. They process and evaluate information and then modify their behaviour accordingly. These highly diverse competences are made possible by parallel sign(alling)-mediated communication processes within the plant body (intraorganismic), between the same, related and different species (interorganismic), and between plants and non-plant organisms (transorganismic). Intraorganismic communication involves sign-mediated interactions within cells (intracellular) and between cells (intercellular). This is crucial in coordinating growth and development, shape and dynamics. Such communication must function both on the local level and between widely separated plant parts. This allows plants to coordinate appropriate response behaviours in a differentiated manner, depending on their current developmental status and physiological influences. Lastly, this volume documents how plant ecosphere inhabitants communicate with each other to coordinate their behavioural patterns, as well as the role of viruses in these highly dynamic interactional networks.

Molecular Biology of The Cell

Author : Bruce Alberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780815332183
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Molecular Biology of The Cell written by Bruce Alberts and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Secret Life of Plants

Author : Peter Tompkins
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006287442X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Book Synopsis The Secret Life of Plants by : Peter Tompkins

Download or read book The Secret Life of Plants written by Peter Tompkins and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the inner world of plants and its fascinating relation to mankind, as uncovered by the latest discoveries of science. A perennial bestseller. In this truly revolutionary and beloved work, drawn from remarkable research, Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird cast light on the rich psychic universe of plants. Now available in a new edition, The Secret Life of Plants explores plants' response to human care and nurturing, their ability to communicate with man, plants' surprising reaction to music, their lie-detection abilities, their creative powers, and much more. Tompkins and Bird's classic book affirms the depth of humanity's relationship with nature and adds special urgency to the cause of protecting the environment that nourishes us.

Nature Is Never Silent

Author : Madlen Ziege
Publisher : Scribe Publications
ISBN 13 : 1922586048
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Nature Is Never Silent written by Madlen Ziege and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Entangled Life and The Hidden Life of Trees, a fascinating journey into the world of plants and animals, and the ways they communicate with each other. In forests, fields, and even gardens, there is a constant exchange of information going on. Animals and plants must communicate with one another to survive, but they also tell lies, set traps, talk to themselves, and speak to each other in a variety of unexpected ways. Here, behavioural biologist Madlen Ziege reveals the fascinating world of nonhuman communication. In charming, humorous, and accessible prose, she shows how nature’s language can help us to understand our own place in the natural world a little better.

The Language of Plants

Author : Monica Gagliano
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452954127
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book The Language of Plants written by Monica Gagliano and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth-century naturalist Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) argued that plants are animate, living beings and attributed them sensation, movement, and a certain degree of mental activity, emphasizing the continuity between humankind and plant existence. Two centuries later, the understanding of plants as active and communicative organisms has reemerged in such diverse fields as plant neurobiology, philosophical posthumanism, and ecocriticism. The Language of Plants brings together groundbreaking essays from across the disciplines to foster a dialogue between the biological sciences and the humanities and to reconsider our relation to the vegetal world in new ethical and political terms. Viewing plants as sophisticated information-processing organisms with complex communication strategies (they can sense and respond to environmental cues and play an active role in their own survival and reproduction through chemical languages) radically transforms our notion of plants as unresponsive beings, ready to be instrumentally appropriated. By providing multifaceted understandings of plants, informed by the latest developments in evolutionary ecology, the philosophy of biology, and ecocritical theory, The Language of Plants promotes the freedom of imagination necessary for a new ecological awareness and more sustainable interactions with diverse life forms. Contributors: Joni Adamson, Arizona State U; Nancy E. Baker, Sarah Lawrence College; Karen L. F. Houle, U of Guelph; Luce Irigaray, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris; Erin James, U of Idaho; Richard Karban, U of California at Davis; André Kessler, Cornell U; Isabel Kranz, U of Vienna; Michael Marder, U of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU); Timothy Morton, Rice U; Christian Nansen, U of California at Davis; Robert A. Raguso, Cornell U; Catriona Sandilands, York U.

Molecular Approaches in Plant Biology and Environmental Challenges

Author : Sudhir P. Singh
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811506906
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Book Synopsis Molecular Approaches in Plant Biology and Environmental Challenges by : Sudhir P. Singh

Download or read book Molecular Approaches in Plant Biology and Environmental Challenges written by Sudhir P. Singh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses molecular approaches in plant as response to environmental factors, such as variations in temperature, water availability, salinity, and metal stress. The book also covers the impact of increasing global population, urbanization, and industrialization on these molecular behaviors. It covers the natural tolerance mechanism which plants adopt to cope with adverse environments, as well as the novel molecular strategies for engineering the plants in human interest. This book will be of interest to researchers working on the impact of the changing environment on plant ecology, issues of crop yield, and nutrient quantity and quality in agricultural crops. The book will be of interest to researchers as well as policy makers in the environmental and agricultural domains.

MicroRNAs in Plant Development and Stress Responses

Author : Ramanjulu Sunkar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 364227384X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis MicroRNAs in Plant Development and Stress Responses by : Ramanjulu Sunkar

Download or read book MicroRNAs in Plant Development and Stress Responses written by Ramanjulu Sunkar and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Precise regulation of gene expression in both time and space is vital to plant growth, development and adaptation to biotic and abiotic stress conditions. This is achieved by multiple mechanisms, with perhaps the most important control being exerted at the level of transcription. However, with the recent discovery of microRNAs another ubiquitous mode of gene regulation that occurs at the post-transcriptional level has been identified. MicroRNAs can silence gene expression by targeting complementary or partially complementary mRNAs for degradation or translational inhibition. Recent studies have revealed that microRNAs play fundamental roles in plant growth and development, as well as in adaptation to biotic and abiotic stresses. This book highlights the roles of individual miRNAs that control and regulate diverse aspects of plant processes.

Memory and Learning in Plants

Author : Frantisek Baluska
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331975596X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Memory and Learning in Plants written by Frantisek Baluska and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assembles recent research on memory and learning in plants. Organisms that share a capability to store information about experiences in the past have an actively generated background resource on which they can compare and evaluate coming experiences in order to react faster or even better. This is an essential tool for all adaptation purposes. Such memory/learning skills can be found from bacteria up to fungi, animals and plants, although until recently it had been mentioned only as capabilities of higher animals. With the rise of epigenetics the context dependent marking of experiences on the genetic level is an essential perspective to understand memory and learning in organisms. Plants are highly sensitive organisms that actively compete for environmental resources. They assess their surroundings, estimate how much energy they need for particular goals, and then realize the optimum variant. They take measures to control certain environmental resources. They perceive themselves and can distinguish between ‘self’ and ‘non-self’. They process and evaluate information and then modify their behavior accordingly. The book will guide scientists in further investigations on these skills of plant behavior and on how plants mediate signaling processes between themselves and the environment in memory and learning processes.

Lessons from Plants

Author : Beronda L. Montgomery
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674259394
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Lessons from Plants written by Beronda L. Montgomery and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of how plant behavior and adaptation offer valuable insights for human thriving. We know that plants are important. They maintain the atmosphere by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. They nourish other living organisms and supply psychological benefits to humans as well, improving our moods and beautifying the landscape around us. But plants don’t just passively provide. They also take action. Beronda L. Montgomery explores the vigorous, creative lives of organisms often treated as static and predictable. In fact, plants are masters of adaptation. They “know” what and who they are, and they use this knowledge to make a way in the world. Plants experience a kind of sensation that does not require eyes or ears. They distinguish kin, friend, and foe, and they are able to respond to ecological competition despite lacking the capacity of fight-or-flight. Plants are even capable of transformative behaviors that allow them to maximize their chances of survival in a dynamic and sometimes unfriendly environment. Lessons from Plants enters into the depth of botanic experience and shows how we might improve human society by better appreciating not just what plants give us but also how they achieve their own purposes. What would it mean to learn from these organisms, to become more aware of our environments and to adapt to our own worlds by calling on perception and awareness? Montgomery’s meditative study puts before us a question with the power to reframe the way we live: What would a plant do?

Coding and Decoding of Calcium Signals in Plants

Author : Sheng Luan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783642208294
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Coding and Decoding of Calcium Signals in Plants written by Sheng Luan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plants cannot move away from their environments. As a result, all plants that have survived to date have evolved sophisticated signaling mechanisms that allow them to perceive, respond, and adapt to constantly changing environmental conditions. Among the many cellular processes that respond to environmental changes, elevation of calcium levels is by far the most universal messenger that matches primary signals to cellular responses. Yet it remains unclear how calcium, a simple cation, translates so many different signals into distinct responses - how is the “specificity” of signal-response coupling encoded within the calcium changes? This book will attempt to answer this question by describing the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the coding and decoding of calcium signals in plant cells.

Flower Talk

Author : Sara Levine
Publisher : Millbrook Press (Tm)
ISBN 13 : 1541519280
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Flower Talk written by Sara Levine and published by Millbrook Press (Tm). This book was released on 2019 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cantankerous talking cactus reaveals to readers the significance of different colors of flowers in terms of which pollinators (bees, bats, birds, etc.) different colors "talk" to.

Redox Homeostasis in Plants

Author : Sanjib Kumar Panda
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331995315X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Redox Homeostasis in Plants written by Sanjib Kumar Panda and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book summarizes the latest research results on the role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in plants, particularly in many abiotic stresses, and their regulation. Redox homeostasis refers to maintaining a balance of oxidised and reduced state of biomolecules in a biological system for all-round sustenance. In a living system, redox reactions contribute to the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which act as signalling molecules for developmental as well as stress-response processes in plants. It is presumed that, being sessile and an aerobe requiring oxygen for mitochondrial energy production, as well as producing oxygen during photosynthesis, the redox homeostasis process is more complex and regulated in plants than in animals. Any imbalance in the homeostasis is mainly compensated for by the production of various ROS molecules, which, though they can cause severe oxidative damage in excess, can also ideally act as signalling molecules.

Salt and Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants

Author : Mirza Hasanuzzaman
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030402770
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis Salt and Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants by : Mirza Hasanuzzaman

Download or read book Salt and Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants written by Mirza Hasanuzzaman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents various aspects of salt and drought stress signaling in crops, combining physiological, biochemical, and molecular studies. Salt and drought stress are two major constraints on crop production worldwide. Plants possess several mechanisms to cope with the adverse effects of salt and drought. Among these mechanisms, stress signaling is very important, because it integrates and regulates nuclear gene expression and other cellular activities, which can help to restore cellular homeostasis. Accordingly, understanding the signaling cascades will help plant biologists to grasp the tolerance mechanisms that allow breeders to develop tolerant crop varieties. This book is an essential resource for researchers and graduate students working on salt and drought stress physiology and plant breeding.

Getting to the Heart of Science Communication

Author : Faith Kearns
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642830747
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Getting to the Heart of Science Communication written by Faith Kearns and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists today working on controversial issues from climate change to drought to COVID-19 are finding themselves more often in the middle of deeply traumatizing or polarized conflicts they feel unprepared to referee. It is no longer enough for scientists to communicate a scientific topic clearly. They must now be experts not only in their fields of study, but also in navigating the thoughts, feelings, and opinions of members of the public they engage with, and with each other. And the conversations are growing more fraught. In Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, Faith Kearns has penned a succinct guide for navigating the human relationships critical to the success of practice-based science. This meticulously researched volume takes science communication to the next level, helping scientists to see the value of listening as well as talking, understanding power dynamics in relationships, and addressing the roles of trauma, loss, grief, and healing.