Plant Responses to Environmental Stimuli The Role of Specific Forms of Plant Memory /

• Main Author: Thellier, Michel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Plant science.; Botany.; Climate change.; Life Sciences.; Plant Sciences.; Climate Change.

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 tho...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Forewords
• Plant and Recollection
• Chapter 1: Me: A Plant
• Chapter 2: Plant Sensitivity
• Chapter 3: Discovery of a Plant Memory Controlling Bud-precedence Specification
• Chapter 4: Other Approaches of the Storage/Recall Form of Plant Memory
• Chapter 5: Effect of a Repetition of the Same Stimulus: The “Priming” Form of Plant Memory
• Chapter 6: Comparing Plant with Animal Memory
• Chapter 7: What is the Utility for a Plant to Possess Memory
• Chapter 8: Towards a Synthesis
• Epilogue
• Appendix 1: Information Coding and Secret Messages
• Appendix 2: Brief Responses to a Few Interrogations About Molecular Biology
• Appendix 3: Calcium Condensation/Decondensation
• Glossary
• Bibliography.