Communication in Plants - Neural Aspects of Plant Life pdf

Stefano Mancuso est directeur du Laboratoire international de neurobiologie végétale (LINV) à Florence, en Italie, fondateur de la Société internationale pour la signalisation et le comportement des plantes et professeur à l'Université de Florence. Ses livres récents incluent The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior (2017), Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence (2015) et Measuring Roots: An Updated Approach (2011)

Communication in Plants - Neural Aspects of Plant Life pdf par Stefano Mancuso

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.