linkedin post 2020-09-04 04:18:21
EVIDENCE-BASED. "The fact that plants are electrically excitable and able to generate and propagate electrical signals is well documented." https://lnkd.in/dZXtCFD View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-09-04 04:17:16
HOT POTATO. "Plant neurobiology’ is anything but uncontroversial." Circuitous double negative. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-016-1040-1 View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-09-03 04:07:45
"PLANT NEUROBIOLOGY is a newly developed discipline in plant physiology, aimed at establishing the structure of information networks within the plant in order to understand how plants respond to environmental stimuli by means of electrochemical signals." Provocative naming of this new field may have been self-destructive. https://lnkd.in/dUMF8_P View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-09-03 04:06:17
ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY in plants. Once just a woo-woo urban myth from tree-huggers; today a new academic discipline with good science. It is now clear from numerous perspectives that plants are remarkably complex, sentient and clever creatures. View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-09-03 04:04:54
LARGELY UNKNOWN. "The specific sensory mechanisms available in plants for detecting sound are still unclear. No scientific studies that I am aware of have been conducted on the potential acoustic communicative abilities of plants." http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/4/789.full View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-09-03 04:01:07
MOLECULAR IMPACT OF SOUND. "Sound waves elicit changes at the molecular and physiological level, including the levels of polyamines and important phytohormones (e.g., indole acetic acid and abscisic acid, the regulation of antioxidant enzymes, the uptake of oxygen, the synthesis of RNA and soluble proteins, and perhaps most importantly, gene expression." http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/4/789.full View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-09-03 03:59:41
RESPONSE TO SOUND. "Whichever explanation for the origin of acoustic emissions from plants is correct, the fact remains that plants emit sounds and they “hear” them too. Decades of scientific research indicate that plants do respond to sound waves of different frequencies by modifying germination and growth rates." https://lnkd.in/dd33rp7 View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-09-03 03:58:33
BEYOND CAVITATION. "Although it remains undisputed that cavitation can induce acoustic emissions, the acoustic signals emitted by plants are so numerous that it always seemed extremely unlikely that each acoustic event was attributable to cavitation alone." http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/4/789.full View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-09-03 03:56:55
MECHANICAL BOOMING. "Acoustic emissions are generally interpreted as the result of the abrupt release of tension in the water-transport system of plants following cavitation as water is pulled by transpiration from the roots through the xylem to the leaves." http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/4/789.full View in LinkedIn