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Communication in Plants - Neural Aspects of Plant Life
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Stefano MancusoNumber Of Downloads:
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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.
Stefano Mancuso
Stefano Mancuso is the Director of the International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology (LINV) in Florence, Italy, a founder of the International Society for Plant Signalling and Behaviour, and a professor at the University of Florence. His recent books include The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behaviour (2017), Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence (2015), and Measuring Roots: An Updated Approach (2011)
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