Electrical Signals in Plants?
Do plants have a nervous system?
Most scientists would certainly say: NO! (At least not the complex nervous system of animals.)
But scientists have been able to detect transient electrical signals somewhat analogous to action potentials under certain situations in plants.
Such situations involve the classic examples of thigmosnasty in plants, namely, the [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Nervous Plants? (Part 2)
Posted in Plant Signaling, tagged botany, Darwin, Nature, plants, science on March 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nervous Plants?
Posted in Plant Signaling, tagged botany, plants, science on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Do Plants Have a Nervous System?
Back in the heady (hazy?) days of the early 1970’s, a book was making the rounds on college campuses that suggested plants possessed a sort of sentience.
This book was The Secret Life of Plants.
The professor teaching my Introductory Botany class at the time loathed this book. He actually [...]
House Plants Can “Clean” the Air Indoors (Or Is It the Microbes in the Potting Soil?)
Posted in Phytoremediation, tagged botany, health, plants, science on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From this years TED conference comes news that plants can clean the air in a large office building in India….and increase people’s productivity!
One of the plants used in this study is the so-called “Mother-in-Law’s Tongue” or Sansevieria trifasciata. (see photo on right.)
This certainly is good news, although the idea that plants remove hydrocarbons, etc., from [...]
