By Anthony Trewavas (auth.), Dr. František Baluška, Dr. Stefano Mancuso, Dr. Dieter Volkmann (eds.)
Plant neurobiology is a newly rising box of plant sciences. It covers signalling and communique in any respect degrees of organic association – from molecules as much as ecological groups. during this ebook, crops are awarded as clever and social organisms with complicated types of conversation and data processing.
Authors from varied backgrounds equivalent to molecular and mobile biology, electrophysiology, in addition to ecology deal with crucial facets of plant conversation, together with the plant immune procedure, talents of crops to acknowledge self, sign transduction, receptors, plant neurotransmitters and plant neurophysiology. extra, vegetation may be able to realize the id of herbivores and set up the defence responses as a result. The similarities in animal and plant neuronal/immune platforms are mentioned too. these kind of hidden features of flowers and behavior will stimulate extra excessive investigations with a view to comprehend the communicative vegetation of their entire complexity.
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Subsequent investigation indicated learning (Hoffer et al. 2001) and the realization that these simple networks provide the individual bacterial cell with informed decisions (Bijlsma and Groisman 2003) in a rudimentary form of intelligence. “This simplest of animals (bacteria) exhibits a prototypical centralized intelligence system that has the same essential design characteristics and problem solving logic as is evident in all animal intelligence systems including humans” (La Cerra 2003). “Some of the most fundamental features of brains such as sensory integration, memory, decision making and the control of behaviour can all be found in these simple organisms” (Allmann 1999).
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