Author : Richard Karban
Release : 2015-06-30
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 70X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Plant Sensing and Communication by : Richard Karban
Download or read book Plant Sensing and Communication written by Richard Karban. This book was released on 2015-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research is showing that plants are in constant and lively discourse--they communicate, signaling to remote organs within an individual, eavesdropping on neighboring individuals, and exchanging information with other organisms ranging from other plants to microbes to animals. Plants lack central nervous systems, and the mechanisms coordinating plant sensing, behavior, and communication are quite different from the systems that accomplish similar tasks in animals. But they are no less impressive from an evolutionary perspective. In "Plant Communication, "Karban puts an ear to the ground to reveal the world of plant communication and information sensing. He reveals their sensory capabilities, the learning capacity of plants, sensory signaling and communication, the different responses to pollinators and predators, and the mechanisms that undergird this impressive behavioral repertoire. The book shows that plants are hardly the inanimate organisms limited by their stationary existence."