Plant neurobiology

Baluška, Frantǐsek; Mancuso, Stefano

doi:10.4161/psb.4.6.8870

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“…The body of flowering plants has a clear polarity, with the root apices forming the sensory pole, specialized in searching for water and mineral nutrients, and the shoot apices forming the reproductive pole, specialized in sexual reproduction (Baluška et al, 2006; Baluška and Mancuso, 2009a,b). The heterogeneous and patchy nature of soils, when nutritionally rich patches are located close to nutritionally poor and dry (or even toxic) soil portions, presents a difficult challenge for roots (Shemesh et al, 2010) in their major task of finding and acquiring enough nutrition so as to feed the whole plant.…”

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“…In the evolutionary history of land plants, there is a clear tendency toward an increased sophistication of plant behavior (Trewavas, 2005, 2009; Brenner et al, 2006; Baluška and Mancuso, 2009a,b; Karban and Shiojiri, 2010). For instance, as noted above, complex plant bodies of modern plants are well integrated via long-distance signaling and communication (Baluška, 2013) to effect and coordinate behaviors important for survival, such as collective defenses against predators and foraging for soil nutrients, and reproduction, such as pollinator attraction or seed dispersal.…”

Section: Evolutionary Origin Of Plant Behavior and Intelligencementioning

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Microorganism and filamentous fungi drive evolution of plant synapses

Baluška¹,

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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Section: Evolutionary Origin Of Plant Behavior and Intelligencementioning

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Microorganism and filamentous fungi drive evolution of plant synapses

Baluška¹,

Mancuso²

2013

Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol.

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“…certain type of reaction to already known situation. If the stress is repeated again, the reaction of the plant is more rapid on the basis of this memory [2,4,6,7,8,9,10,11,30,56,69,80,82,83,87,91]. It is also known that root apices during growth can recognize in advance dangerous soil substrate and avoid them using similar active avoidance root tropism.…”

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Influence of the Root and Seed Traits on Tolerance to Abiotic Stress

Bláha¹,

Pazderů²

2013

Agricultural Chemistry

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Agricultural Chemistry 90considerable economic costs connected with maintenance of genetic resources. This situation can lead even to loss of genetic resources.Consequent changes during long term storage consist from: increasing concentration of free radicals, which are formed in time of long-term seed storage, damaging membrane lipids, inactivation of enzymes, damaging storage proteins and DNA. This process resulted to lower seed quality (low vigor) or even total loss of germination. Deterioration of the seeds during storage is irreversible phenomenon, natural for living organisms. Aged seeds influence optimal root growth (angle of root growth in the soil, depth penetration, tillering).Roots quality influences water utilization in plants with different level by different cultivars in different environmental conditions and by this way drought tolerance during vegetation period and through the new filial seed generation germination and grow of young plants.The water availability and efficiency of water utilization in time of germination is one of the basic factors influencing field emergence rate. Water uptake is the first step for enzymes activation, and shortly, for successful germination. The large variability in water use efficiency of seeds of different species and cultivars exist. Seed and root phylogeny -general overviewThe seeds, roots and their properties are the result of the phylogenic development under stress pressure, especially the influence of dry conditions in time of plant colonization of the Earth. The seed phylogeny reflects very interesting historical transition for photosynthetic organisms. The seed history consists of four main steps: the development of seed morphological structures, anatomy of seeds; the development of dormancy and the evolution of seed size (mass) [65,66] Seeds were developed over a period of approximately 300 million years of phylogeny for three main reasons [11,14,16,63]

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“…Science has shown that the plant is similar to the behaviour of the animals as compared to response mechanisms to the environment [1]. By submitting the plant to electrical stimuli, we supposedly promote stresses that can generate positive responses.…”

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Total chlorophyll and growth of grape rootstock ‘SO4’ in answer to electrical stimuli

2016

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Abstract. The experiment examined effects on the total chlorophyll and growth of vine rootstock 'SO4' under electrical stimulation. The study was conducted from December 2015 to March 2016 by the Core for Study, Research and Extension in Enology (NEPE 2 ), in a greenhouse at the Federal University of "Pampa" (UNIPAMPA) -"Dom Pedrito" Campus. The Rootstocks 'SO4' were obtained in property located in the city of "Dom Pedrito" (RS, Brazil).The four treatments were: The first (T1) to control, no electric discharge; the second (T2) with an electric discharge of 0.02 mA for 5 seconds; followed by the third (T3) and fourth (T4) with times of discharge of 9 and 18 seconds respectively. The analyses were made using a chlorophyll meter. To measure chlorophyll content of the rootstock 'SO4' when subjected to electrical discharges with a 0.02 mA current during 9 seconds and 18 seconds applied once per week for twelve weeks.

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Plant neurobiology

Cited by 29 publications

References 21 publications

Microorganism and filamentous fungi drive evolution of plant synapses

Microorganism and filamentous fungi drive evolution of plant synapses

Influence of the Root and Seed Traits on Tolerance to Abiotic Stress

Total chlorophyll and growth of grape rootstock ‘SO4’ in answer to electrical stimuli

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