Anesthetics, Anesthesia, and Plants

Yokawa, Ken; Kagenishi, Tomoko; Baluška, Frantǐsek

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2018.10.006

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“…That study reveals that the actions of anaesthetics are similar in plants and animals at the cellular and organ levels. It also suggests that plants are emerging as attractive model objects to study elusive questions related to actions of anaesthetics, and to serve as an alternative test system for human anaesthesia [172,173]. This work adds to the expanding catalogue of studies that testify to fundamental similarities in plant and animal biologies at the chemical levels.…”

Section: Pushing the Boundaries: Plant 'Neurobiology'mentioning

confidence: 94%

The botanical multiverse of Peter Barlow

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Volkmann

Baluška

2019

Communicative & Integrative Biology

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Dr Peter Barlow, who died in 2017, was one of the most respected botanists and biologists of the latter half of the 20th Century. His interests covered a wide range of plant biological topics, e.g. root growth and development, plant cytoskeleton, effects of gravity, plant intelligence, pattern formation, and evolution of eukaryotic cells. Here we consider Peter’s numerous contributions to the: elucidation of plant patterns; understanding of root biology; role of the plant cytoskeleton in growth and development; influence of the Moon on terrestrial vegetation; Cell Body concept; and plant neurobiology. In so doing we attempt not only to provide an overview of Peter’s important work in many areas of plant biology, but also to place that work in the context of recent advances in plant and biological sciences.

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Section: Pushing the Boundaries: Plant 'Neurobiology'mentioning

confidence: 94%

The botanical multiverse of Peter Barlow

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2019

Communicative & Integrative Biology

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“…Finally, another intriguing aspect of plant behaviour associated wiht movement is their response to anaesthetics such as diethyl ether, chloroform, halothane or isoflurane (Yokawa et al, 2019). Recently Yokawa and colleagues showed some effects of anaesthetics in plants including Mimosa pudica L. , Dionaea muscipula Ellis , Drosera capensis L. , Pisum sativum L. and Lepidium sativum L. (Yokawa et al, 2018).…”

Section: Movement: Some Interesting Cases Of ‘Nasties’ (Thigmonastiesmentioning

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Plant behaviour: an evolutionary response to the environment?

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Plants are not just passive living beings that exist in nature. They are complex and highly adaptable species that react sensitively to environmental forces/stimuli with movement, morphological changes and through the communication via volatile molecules. In a way, plants mimic some traits of animal and human behaviour; they compete for limited resources by gaining more area for more sunlight and spread their roots underground. Furthermore, in order to survive and thrive, they evolve and ‘learn’ to control various environmental stress factors in order to increase the yield of flowering, fertilization and germination processes. The concept of associating complex behaviour, such as intelligence, with plants is still a highly debatable topic among researchers worldwide. Recent studies have shown that plants are able to discriminate between positive and negative experiences and ‘learn’ from them. Some botanists have interpreted these behavioural data as a form of primitive cognitive processes. Others have evaluated these responses as biological automatisms of plants determined by adaptation to the environment and absence of intelligence. This review aims to explore adaptive behavioural aspects of various plant species distributed in different ecosystems by emphasizing their biological complexity and survival instincts.

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“…The analogy with modern history, its examples and arguments and the emergence of plant physiology in the nineteenth century is striking: intellectual blockages seem to have changed very little in 150 years of experimental plant study. Thus, the agentivist plant biologists defend a far more active model of plant behaviour similar to that of animals in terms of its effects, while plant neurobiologists go even further by emphasizing and reactivating analogies with structures such as those that would exist between plant cells and neurons or in terms of action-potential mechanisms that induce the movements of plant organs and animal muscles (and are hindered in both cases by the same anesthetic substances) (Yokawa et al 2018(Yokawa et al , 2019. From this historical standpoint, plant neurobiology appears less revolutionary, or upsetting, than we might initially think.…”

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History and epistemology of plant behaviour: a pluralistic view?

Hiernaux

2019

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Some biologists now argue in favour of a pluralistic approach to plant activities, understandable both from the classical perspective of physiological mechanisms and that of the biology of behaviour involving choices and decisions in relation to the environment. However, some do not hesitate to go further, such as plant "neurobiologists" or philosophers who today defend an intelligence, a mind or even a plant consciousness in a renewed perspective of these terms. To what extent can we then adhere to pluralism in the study of plant behaviour? How does this pluralism in the study and explanation of plant behaviour fit into, or even build itself up, in a broader history of science? Is it a revolutionary way of rethinking plant behaviour in the twenty-first century or is it an epistemological extension of an older attitude? By proposing a synthesis of the question of plant behaviour by selected elements of the history of botany, the objective is to show that the current plant biology is not unified on the question of behaviour, but that its different tendencies are in fact part of a long botanical tradition with contrasting postures. Two axes that are in fact historically linked will serve as a common thread. 1. Are there several ways of understanding or conceiving plant behaviour within plant sciences and their epistemology? 2. Can the behaviour of a plant be considered in the same way as that of an animal? The working hypothesis defended in this article consists in showing that the current opposition between growth, development and reductionist physiology on the one hand and the biology of behaviour involving sensitivity and choices in plant activity (i.e. agency) on the other hand has been built up through the history of botany.

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Anesthetics, Anesthesia, and Plants

Cited by 25 publications

References 11 publications

The botanical multiverse of Peter Barlow

The botanical multiverse of Peter Barlow

Plant behaviour: an evolutionary response to the environment?

History and epistemology of plant behaviour: a pluralistic view?

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