Communication in Plants : Neuronal Aspects of Plant Life
- المؤلف
- František Baluška, Stefano Mancuso, Dieter Volkmann
- سنة النشر
- 2006
- الناشر
- Springer
- لغة الملف
- انكليزي
- نوع الملف
- Book
- تصنيف الكتاب
- Medical Science
- تحميل الكتاب قراءة الكتاب
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.
الكلمات المفتاحية: Biomedical and life sciences / Expression / Pathogen / Biology / Gene expression / Immune system / Immunity / Neurobiology / Neurotransmitter / Perception / Physiology / Plant / Plants / Receptor / Regulation / Signal transduction
