A Comparison With Halothane of the Hormonal and Anaesthetic Properties of Ethylene in Plants

Powell, J. M.; Grant, C.; Robinson, Siân; Radford, Sheila G.

doi:10.1093/bja/45.7.682

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“…26,27 Ethylene is notable for its hormonal actions in plants at concentrations as low as MAC x 10 -6 and have also anesthetics characteristics. 10 Powell 10 tested the hypothesis that its anesthetic and hormonal properties of ethylene might be connected, by comparing its effects with those of halothane on Viciafaba and other species of plants. In this study halothane and ethylene are shown to have comparable properties at or near clinical anesthetic concentrations, for example in the reduction of mitotic index.…”

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“…Ethylene, discussed in the contemporary plant sciences as stress hormone, is also a very powerful anesthetic. [10][11][12] Moreover, several anesthetics were reported to overcoming dormancy in seeds 13 and to inhibit cytoplasmic streaming. 14 Plants can react to mechanical stimuli with the use of mechano-sensitive channels but only certain plants with rapid and highly noticeable touch-stimulus response, such as Mimosa Pudica and Venus flytrap.…”

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Mimosa pudica,Dionaea muscipulaand anesthetics

Luccia

2012

Plant Signaling & Behavior

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Mimosa pudica,Dionaea muscipulaand anesthetics

Luccia

2012

Plant Signaling & Behavior

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“…We offer as indirect and preliminary support of this notion the well-known findings that all organisms, including plants, are sensitive to anesthetics (Milne and Beamish, 1999; Eckenhoff, 2008; De Luccia, 2012). Moreover, intriguingly, stressed and wounded plants produce the powerful anesthetics ethylene and divinyl ether (Luckhardt and Carter, 1923; Powell et al, 1973; Campagna et al, 2003; Fammartino et al, 2007), perhaps as a means to attenuate plant-specific pain perceptions of stressed and wounded plants, allowing effective survival of sessile plants.…”

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Microorganism and filamentous fungi drive evolution of plant synapses

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Mancuso²

2013

Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol.

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In the course of plant evolution, there is an obvious trend toward an increased complexity of plant bodies, as well as an increased sophistication of plant behavior and communication. Phenotypic plasticity of plants is based on the polar auxin transport machinery that is directly linked with plant sensory systems impinging on plant behavior and adaptive responses. Similar to the emergence and evolution of eukaryotic cells, evolution of land plants was also shaped and driven by infective and symbiotic microorganisms. These microorganisms are the driving force behind the evolution of plant synapses and other neuronal aspects of higher plants; this is especially pronounced in the root apices. Plant synapses allow synaptic cell–cell communication and coordination in plants, as well as sensory-motor integration in root apices searching for water and mineral nutrition. These neuronal aspects of higher plants are closely linked with their unique ability to adapt to environmental changes.

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“…Interestingly, ethylene, which is a wound-induced plant hormone, also acts as a general anesthetic (Campagna et al 2003) , and roots are sensitive to anesthetics (Grant et al 1974) . In fact, anesthetics and ethylene induce similar responses in roots (Powell et al 1973) . Moreover, several other neuronal transmitters have been found to act in a similar neuronal mode in plants too, including glutamate, glycine, acetylcholine, ATP, GABA, histamine, dopamine, melatonin, and serotonin (Baluška et al 2006a(Baluška et al , 2009Bre nner et al 2006 ;Sagane et al 2005 ;Stephens et al 2008) .…”

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Plants and Animals: Convergent Evolution in Action?

Baluška

Mancuso

2009

Signaling and Communication in Plants

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The Aristotelian-Linnean heritage of our current sciences is tightly associated with a view of automata-like passive plants lacking active sensory-driven lifestyles. Charles Darwin made the first attempt to escape from this "Aristotelian trap." Although his work on plants stimulated lively research into plant tropisms and hormones, his unconventional view of plants was largely ignored by the mainstream of plant sciences until recently. Darwin witnessed early studies on electrical signaling in plants, including plant action potentials. Nevertheless, this important and well-developed field of plant sciences was almost wiped out following the publication of the controversial book The Secret Life of Plants in the 1970s. The resulting "esoteric stigma" hindered the further development of this branch of plant sciences. Recently, advances in cell and molecular biology as well as in ecology led to the birth of plant neurobiology, which aims to study plants in their full sensory and communicative complexity. New concepts are needed and new questions must be asked in order to advance our still rudimentary understanding of plants.It is hardly an exaggeration to say that the tip of the radicle thus endowed [with sensitivity] and having the power of directing the movements of the adjoining parts, acts like the brain of one of the lower animals; the brain being seated within the anterior end of the body, receiving impressions from the sense-organs, and directing the several movememnts.

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A Comparison With Halothane of the Hormonal and Anaesthetic Properties of Ethylene in Plants

Cited by 14 publications

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Mimosa pudica,Dionaea muscipulaand anesthetics

Mimosa pudica,Dionaea muscipulaand anesthetics

Microorganism and filamentous fungi drive evolution of plant synapses

Plants and Animals: Convergent Evolution in Action?

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