Overview
- Includes latest research results on transgenerational inheritance
- Focuses on stress responses in plants
- Written by international experts
Part of the book series: Signaling and Communication in Plants (SIGCOMM)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book assembles recent research on memory and learning in plants. Organisms that share a capability to store information about experiences in the past have an actively generated background resource on which they can compare and evaluate coming experiences in order to react faster or even better. This is an essential tool for all adaptation purposes. Such memory/learning skills can be found from bacteria up to fungi, animals and plants, although until recently it had been mentioned only as capabilities of higher animals. With the rise of epigenetics the context dependent marking of experiences on the genetic level is an essential perspective to understand memory and learning in organisms.
Plants are highly sensitive organisms that actively compete for environmental resources. They assess their surroundings, estimate how much energy they need for particular goals, and then realize the optimum variant. They take measures to control certain environmental resources. They perceive themselves and can distinguish between ‘self’ and ‘non-self’. They process and evaluate information and then modify their behavior accordingly.
The book will guide scientists in further investigations on these skills of plant behavior and on how plants mediate signaling processes between themselves and the environment in memory and learning processes.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Memory and Learning in Plants
Editors: Frantisek Baluska, Monica Gagliano, Guenther Witzany
Series Title: Signaling and Communication in Plants
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75596-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75595-3Published: 07 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09273-3Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-75596-0Published: 23 April 2018
Series ISSN: 1867-9048
Series E-ISSN: 1867-9056
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 222
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Physiology, Behavioral Sciences, Plant Biochemistry, Plant Ecology, Plant Genetics and Genomics