Book ID: 89334
Baluska, F., S. Mancuso and D. Volkmann (eds.)
Communication in Plants. Neuronal Aspects of Plant Life. 2006. 5 col. illustr. 82 b/w illustr. XXIX, 438 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
Plant neurobiology covers signalling and communication at all levels of biological organization - from molecules up to ecological communities. In this book, plants are presented as intelligent and social organisms with complex forms of communication and information processing.
Contents(main headings only): The Green Plant as an Intelligent Organism/ Neurobiological View of Plants and Their Body Plan/ Charles Darwin and the Plant Root Apex: Closing a Gap in Living Systems Theory as Applied to Plants/ How can Plants Choose the Most Promising Organs?/ The Role of Root Apices in Shoot Growth Regulation: Support for Neurobiology at the Whole Plant Level?/ Signal Perception and Transduction in Plant Innate Immunity/ etc.