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Plant responses to environmental stimuli
the role of specific forms of plant memory
1 online resource (xvii, 106 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Plants have no sensory organs similar to ours: no eyes, ears or nose. Hence they are often considered to be inert and insensitive. However, they perceive a variety of stimuli such as wind, rain, wounding, cold, drought, attack by pests and herbivores, and even electromagnetic radiations such as those emitted by mobile telephones. Not only they perceive but they also respond to stimuli by modifications in their metabolism and development, sometimes by movements. They have invented the chemical war and the biological war long before us. Some plants would even be able to warn neighbouring plants that herbivores are coming. The responses to stimuli are sometimes immediate and stereotyped. This is the case, for instance, with the folding response of Mimosa leaves and the capture of insects by the carnivorous Dionaea muscipula. However, though lacking a nervous system, plants are also endowed with memory capacity. Upon perception of one or several identical stimuli plants modify the intensity of their response to another occurrence of the same stimulus. In other cases, the perception of a stimulus induces the storage of a piece of information that the plant may repeatedly recall at later times to synchronize its response with other external or internal events (including plant rhythms). So, the stored information may remain latent during lapses of time up to several weeks before being recalled and expressed. What is the evolutionary advantage for plants to possess memory? Where, when and how does the storage of information occur? What is plant memory compared with animal and human memory? Such are the fascinating and stimulating questions that Michel Thellier answers with clarity and scientific rigour. It is indeed a book unique in its kind, which reconsiders our usually accepted ideas while remaining accessible to a broad public fond of Nature, ecology and plant science. Michel Thellier has had a career of professor in plant physiology and biophysics at the University. He has been the Chief Editor of the American journal J. Trace Microprobe Techniques and the Associate Editor of the series "Biology" of the proceedings of the French Academy of Science. He has been the author or editor of a dozen books dealing with plant and cell biology. He is a Member of the French Academy of Science and of the French Academy of Agriculture. All along his career, he has taken a particular interest in plant sensitivity to stimuli. Today, he wishes to help people understand how plant can possess a real capacity of memory, which is, both, so different from ours and so well adapted to the characteristics of its close environment.
Foreword; For More Details; Acknowledgements; Contents; Plant and Recollection; Once upon a€Time & A Brief Introduction to€the€Book; Chapter 1: Me, a€Plant; 1.1 A Little Bit of€Plant Morphology; 1.2 A Little Bit of€Plant Physiology; 1.3 The Plant Cells; Chapter 2: Plant Sensitivity to€Stimuli; 2.1 Animal vs. Plant Sensitivity; 2.2 The Various Sorts of€Stimuli That a€Plant Perceives; 2.2.1 The Relative Length of€Night and€Day; 2.2.2 Plant Sensitivity to€Gravity; 2.2.3 Local and€Distant Responses to€Stimulation; 2.2.4 Defence Reactions of€Plants; 2.2.5 Plant Movements in€Response to€Stimuli.
2.3 How Do Plants Perceive Stimuli?2.3.1 Perception of€Light Signals; 2.3.2 Perception of€Gravitation; 2.3.3 Perception of€Diverse Stimuli; 2.4 After Stimulus Perception, the€Calcium Wave; 2.5 From the€Stimulated to€the€Reactive Area; 2.6 About a€Few Practical Applications; Chapter 3: Discovery of€the€Existence of€Memory in€Bidens Seedlings; 3.1 Correlations Between Organs; 3.2 Dominant and€Dominated Buds; 3.3 Specification of€the€Dominance Between€Cotyledonary€Buds; 3.4 Rate of€Information Transfer; 3.5 Storage/Recall of€Dominance-Specification Information.
3.6 Properties of€the€Storage/Recall Form of€Memory3.6.1 Properties of€the€Storage Function; 3.6.2 Properties of€the€Recall Function; 3.6.3 Interaction of€the€Storage and€Recall Functions; 3.7 Generalizing the€Concept of€Plant Memory; 3.7.1 Experimenting with€Plants Other than Bidens; 3.7.2 Further Remarks about Plant Memory; Chapter 4: More About the€Storage/Recall Form of€Plant Memory; 4.1 New Experimental Systems; 4.2 Reduction of€Hypocotyl Elongation; 4.2.1 Evidencing the€Existence of€Storage and€Recall Functions; 4.2.2 Properties of€the€Memorization of€a€Reduction of€Hypocotyl Elongation.
4.2.3 Extension to€Other Plants than Bidens4.3 Production of€Epidermal Meristems; 4.3.1 The Experimental Approach; 4.3.2 Evidencing the€Existence of€Storage and€Recall Functions; 4.3.3 Properties of€the€Storage Function; 4.3.4 Properties of€the€Recall Function; 4.3.5 Memory and€Rhythms; 4.3.6 Memory and€the€Proteome; Chapter 5: More About the€Learning Form of€Memory in€Plants; 5.1 Examples of€the€Learning Form of€Plant Memory; 5.1.1 Memory Effect at the€Level of€the€Calcium Wave; 5.1.2 Memory Effect at the€Level of€the€Ultimate Response.
5.2 Comparison of€the€Learning with€the€Storage/Recall Form of€MemoryChapter 6: Plant Memory vs. Animal and€Human Memory; 6.1 Reminder of€some Characteristics of€Animal and€Human Memory; 6.2 Plant Memory vs. Animal and€Human Memory; Chapter 7: What Is the€Need for€a€Plant to€Have Memory?; 7.1 Straightforward Responses vs. Memorisation; 7.2 Potential of€the€Learning Form of€Plant Memory; 7.3 Potential of€the€Storage/Recall Form of€Plant Memory; 7.3.1 Potential of€the€Storage Function; 7.3.2 Potential of€the€Recall Function; 7.3.3 Combined Potential of€the€Storage and€Recall Functions.
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