ipernity: Do Plants Think?

Dinesh ^club

. . . . In a 2012 ‘Scientific American’ article titled, “Do Plants Think?” www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-plants-think-daniel-chamovitz Israeli botanist and research scientists Daniel Chamovitz insisted that plants see, feel, smell -- and remember. But how is this possible without neurons?

Explained Chamovitz,

Even in animals, not all information is processed or stored only in the brain. The brain is dominant in higher-order processing in more complex animals, but not in simple ones. Different parts of the plants . . .[exchange] information on cellular, psychological, and environmental states. For example root growth in dependent on a hormonal signal that’s generated in the tips of shoots . . . [while] leaves send signals to the tip of the shoot telling them to start making flowers. In this way, if you really want to do some major hand waving, the entire plant is analogous to the brain. But while plants don’t have neurons, plants both produce and are affected by neuroactive chemicals!

The most inarugable analogy involves the glutamate receptors, a neuroreceptor in the human brain necessary for memory forming and learning. Plants do have glutamate receptors, said Chamovitz, and “from studying these proteins in plants, scientists have learned how glutamate receptors mediate communication from cell to cell.” ~ Page 153/154

4 years ago.

Jaap van 't Veen ^club

New life: well spotted and captured.

4 years ago.

aNNa schramm ^club

!!!! And I speak with my plants :-)))

4 years ago.

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