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 [...]
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Nervous Plants? (Part 2)
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How a Plant Growth Hormone Predicted by Darwin Shapes Plants
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The Power of Movement in Plants
Most of a flowering plant’s development and physiology is regulated by plant hormones.
The first of these chemical signals to be isolated and characterized was auxin.
In the 1930’s, after the initial discovery of auxin by Frits Went in 1928, he, Kenneth Thimann, and Folke Skoog showed that, in addition [...]
