Towards Systemic View for Plant Learning: Ecophysiological Perspective

Souza, Gustavo Maia; Toledo, Gabriel Ricardo Aguilera de; Saraiva, Gustavo Francisco Rosalin

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-75596-0_9

Cited by 12 publications

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“…Altogether, these findings suggest that plants possess the ability to make decisions and adjust their behavior in response to their surroundings. Our findings add this to the literature demonstrating that plant behavior is flexible, as opposed to rigid and mechanical [32], reinforcing the idea that plants are open systems with a remarkable ability to deal with the complexities of an ever-changing environment [33].…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

Decision-Making Underlying Support-Searching in Pea Plants

Wang¹,

Guerra²,

Bonato³

et al. 2023

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Finding a suitable support is a key process in the life history of climbing plants. Climbers that find a suitable support have greater performance and fitness than those that remain prostrate. Numerous studies on climbing plant behavior have elucidated the mechanistic details of support searching and attachment. Far fewer studies have addressed the ecological significance of support-searching behavior and the factors that affect it. Among these, the diameter of supports influences their suitability for twining plants. When support diameter increases beyond some point climbing plants are unable to maintain tensional forces and therefore lose attachment to the trellis. Here we further investigate this issue by putting pea plants in the situation to choose between supports of different diameters while their movement was recorded by means of a three-dimensional motion analysis system. The results indicate that the way climbing plants move can vary depending on whether they are presented with one or two potential supports. Furthermore, when presented with a choice between a thin and a thick support, the plants showed a distinct preference for the former than the latter. The present findings shed further light on how climbers make decisions as far as support search is concerned, and provide evidence that plants adopt one of several alternative plastic responses in a way that optimally corresponds to environmental scenarios.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

Decision-Making Underlying Support-Searching in Pea Plants

Wang¹,

Guerra²,

Bonato³

et al. 2023

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“…This iterative process continues until the information to grasp is perfected. The exchange of information from different plant sectors may occur through shortand long-distance electrical signaling processes [33][34][35] . Each single cell is interconnected by modular bioelectrical activities, allowing for a constant exchange of information and resources within the whole plant.…”

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confidence: 99%

Ascent and attachment in pea plants: a matter of iteration

Guerra,

Bruno,

Spoto

et al. 2024

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Pea plants (Pisum sativum L.) can sense the presence of potential supports in the environment and flexibly adapt their behavior to clasp it. How pea plants control and perfect this behavior during growth remains unexplored. Here, we attempt to fill this gap by studying the movement of the apex and the tendrils at different leaves using three–dimensional (3D) kinematical analysis. We hypothesized that plants accumulate information and resources through the circumnutation movements of each leaf. Information generates the kinematical coordinates for the final launch towards the potential support. Results suggest that developing a functional approach to grasp movement may involve an interactive trial and error process based on continuous cross–talk across leaves. This internal communication provides evidence that plants adopt plastic responses in a way that optimally corresponds to support search scenarios.

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“…As a process evolved billions of years before brains, the realisation of cognition requires, first and foremost, a living body, and not a CNS. Hence, cognition is an embodied and embedded process, present in all living organisms, occurring in the entire body (embodied), and entangled with the environment where the organisms are embedded in (Clark, 1997;Varela et al, 2016;Cazalis et al, 2017;Souza et al, 2018). For example, the way human cognition is altered and modulated by the gut through the gut-brain axis (Tillisch et al, 2013;Bagga et al, 2018), and by the skeletal muscles (e.g.…”

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“…Many cognitive scientists might not agree that cognitive faculties can be found beyond a handful of animal species and non-animal organisms like plants or slime moulds, partly because it is assumed that a large brain and a complex neural system are necessary to support cognitive faculties. Nevertheless, more recent research has included studies on cognitive processes of invertebrates (Mathel and Dickel, 2017;Perry et al, 2017), and non-traditional kingdoms, such as plants (Trewavas, 2016;Souza et al, 2018;Castiello, 2021), fungi (Aleklett and Boddy, 2021), slime moulds (Boussard et al, 2019), and bacteria (Shapiro, 2007(Shapiro, , 2020. These new studies have forced us to reassess what cognition is, what is it for and where it occurs in the living world.…”

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Ariadne’s thread and the extension of cognition: A common but overlooked phenomenon in nature?

et al. 2023

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Over recent decades, our philosophical and scientific understanding of cognition has changed dramatically. We went from conceiving humans as the sole truly cognitive species on the planet to endowing several organisms with cognitive capacities, from considering brains as the exclusive seat of cognition to extending cognitive faculties to the entire physical body and beyond. That cognition could extend beyond the organism’s body is no doubt one of the most controversial of the recent hypotheses. Extended cognition (ExC) has been discussed not only to explain aspects of the human cognitive process, but also of other species such as spiders and more recently, plants. It has been suggested that ExC could offer insights for the grounding of environmentally extended cognitive traits in evolved ecological functions. Here, we reviewed the ecological literature for possible ExC examples that satisfy the mutual manipulability criterion, which can be used to establish experimentally the boundaries of cognitive systems. Our conclusion is that ExC might be far more common than previously thought, and present in organisms as diverse as plants, fungi, termites, spiders, mammals, and slime moulds. Experimental investigation is needed to clarify this idea which, if proven correct, could illuminate a new path into understanding the origins and evolution of cognition.

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Towards Systemic View for Plant Learning: Ecophysiological Perspective

Cited by 12 publications

References 124 publications

Decision-Making Underlying Support-Searching in Pea Plants

Decision-Making Underlying Support-Searching in Pea Plants

Ascent and attachment in pea plants: a matter of iteration

Ariadne’s thread and the extension of cognition: A common but overlooked phenomenon in nature?

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