Plant neurobiology: no brain, no gain?

Alpi, Amedeo; Amrhein, Nikolaus; Bertl, Adam; Blatt, Michael R.; Blumwald, Eduardo; Cervone, Felice; Dainty, J.; Michelis, Maria Ida De; Epstein, Emanuel; Galston, Arthur W.; Goldsmith, Mary Helen M.; Hawes, Chris; Hell, Rüdiger; Hetherington, Alistair M.; Höfte, Monica; Juergens, G.; Leaver, C. J.; Moroni, Anna; Murphy, Angus S.; Oparka, Karl J.; Perata, Pierdomenico; Quader, H.; Rausch, Thomas; Ritzenthaler, Christophe; Rivetta, Alberto; Robinson, David G.; Sanders, Dale; Scheres, Ben; Schumacher, Karin; Sentenac, Hervé; Slayman, Clifford L.; Soave, C.; Somerville, Chris; Taiz, Lincoln; Thiel, Gerhard; Wagner, Richard

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2007.03.002

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“…For example, in the noun metaphor "Our piglet is getting dirty", said by a husband to his wife regarding their child playing in mud (Bezuidenhout 2001), the child is metaphorically a piglet but is literally getting dirty. Similarly, Trewavas (2007) agrees with Alpi et al (2007) that talk of plant "neurobiology" is a metaphor because plants don't have neurons, but he defends the utility of the noun metaphor by arguing that the relevant plant structures have similar information-carrying functions as neurons and other brain structures in animals with brains (see also Brenner et al 2007, p. 413). Verb metaphors are easily created by choosing verbs that, like pirouette, lexicalize object-specific information or select specific arguments, and then pairing them with arguments that pick out different objects than the ones they select for.…”

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“…8 I aim to discharge a key part of the Anti-Exceptionalist's burden in this paper. I largely ignore (here) the negative task of showing the implausibility of non-literal interpretation in order to focus on the positive task of showing 7 This is not to say that epistemic issues are not raised: for example, Alpi et al (2007) question the explanatory utility of the concept of plant neurobiology; Trewavas agrees that this is a metaphor (though Alpi et al call it an analogy) but defends its utility. (See also Calvo andKeijzer 2009 andBrenner et al 2007).…”

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On the proper domain of psychological predicates

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2014

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One question of the bounds of cognition is that of which things have it. A scientifically relevant debate on this question must explain the persistent and selective use of psychological predicates to report findings throughout biology: for example, that neurons prefer, plants and fruit flies decide, and bacteria communicate linguistically. This paper argues that these claims should enjoy default literal interpretation, and that these reports of psychological properties in non-humans are as straightforward as they seem. An epistemic consequence is that these findings can contribute directly to understanding the nature of psychological capacities.

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“…In a bid to retain (and support) category and species boundaries, scholars such as Alpi et al (2007) maintain that conclusions about plant behaviors must be attentive to and reject any slippage or tendencies to anthropomorphize in representations. In the event this occurs, representations are repackaged in accordance with customary expectations.…”

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“The Edibility Approach”: Using Edibility to Explore Relationships, Plant Agency and the Porosity of Species’ Boundaries

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2017

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In light of correspondence between interdisciplinary representations of plant abilities, this paper raises questions about plant/human-animal relationships and in so doing problematizes the category/species boundaries that both establish and characterize the differences between plant and animal. Using a more than human (Cf. Whatmore 2002; Head et al., 2012) multi-species (Kirksey and Helmreich 2010) framework that rejects reductionist methods in favour of a relational, materialities approach; an alternative method to consider plant/human-animal relationships that focuses on edibility and the consequences of ingestion is proposed. Termed the Edibility Approach, this method foregrounds the ways that plants influence human bodies as a result of their edibility and considers the corollary processes that occur during ingestion and after digestion. Interrogation of the social effects of eating plants and the part plants play in inciting behaviours as if from "the inside" of bodies adds a nuanced direction to the study of plant/human-animal relationships. This phyto-centric framing offers a new botanical ontology and conceptual tool. By focusing on the dependencies between species, it proposes that there is a multi-vocal embodied dialogue occurring between species through digestion.

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“…certain type of reaction to already known situation. If the stress is repeated again, the reaction of the plant is more rapid on the basis of this memory [2,4,6,7,8,9,10,11,30,56,69,80,82,83,87,91]. It is also known that root apices during growth can recognize in advance dangerous soil substrate and avoid them using similar active avoidance root tropism.…”

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Influence of the Root and Seed Traits on Tolerance to Abiotic Stress

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Pazderů²

2013

Agricultural Chemistry

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Agricultural Chemistry 90considerable economic costs connected with maintenance of genetic resources. This situation can lead even to loss of genetic resources.Consequent changes during long term storage consist from: increasing concentration of free radicals, which are formed in time of long-term seed storage, damaging membrane lipids, inactivation of enzymes, damaging storage proteins and DNA. This process resulted to lower seed quality (low vigor) or even total loss of germination. Deterioration of the seeds during storage is irreversible phenomenon, natural for living organisms. Aged seeds influence optimal root growth (angle of root growth in the soil, depth penetration, tillering).Roots quality influences water utilization in plants with different level by different cultivars in different environmental conditions and by this way drought tolerance during vegetation period and through the new filial seed generation germination and grow of young plants.The water availability and efficiency of water utilization in time of germination is one of the basic factors influencing field emergence rate. Water uptake is the first step for enzymes activation, and shortly, for successful germination. The large variability in water use efficiency of seeds of different species and cultivars exist. Seed and root phylogeny -general overviewThe seeds, roots and their properties are the result of the phylogenic development under stress pressure, especially the influence of dry conditions in time of plant colonization of the Earth. The seed phylogeny reflects very interesting historical transition for photosynthetic organisms. The seed history consists of four main steps: the development of seed morphological structures, anatomy of seeds; the development of dormancy and the evolution of seed size (mass) [65,66] Seeds were developed over a period of approximately 300 million years of phylogeny for three main reasons [11,14,16,63]

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Plant neurobiology: no brain, no gain?

Cited by 149 publications

References 8 publications

On the proper domain of psychological predicates

On the proper domain of psychological predicates

“The Edibility Approach”: Using Edibility to Explore Relationships, Plant Agency and the Porosity of Species’ Boundaries

Influence of the Root and Seed Traits on Tolerance to Abiotic Stress

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