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Plant-Environment Interactions - From Sensory Plant Biology to Active Plant Behavior (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)
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Plant-Environment Interactions - From Sensory Plant Biology to Active Plant Behavior (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)
Series: Signaling and Communication in Plants
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Our image of plants is changing dramatically away from passive
entities merely subject to environmental forces and organisms that
are designed solely for the accumulation of photosynthate. Plants
are revealing themselves to be dynamic and highly sensitive
organisms that actively and competitively forage for limited
resources, both above and below ground, organisms that accurately
gauge their circumstances, use sophisticated cost-benefit analysis,
and take clear actions to mitigate and control diverse
environmental threats. Moreover, plants are also capable of complex
recognition of self and non-self and are territorial in behavior.
They are as sophisticated in behavior as animals but their
potential has been masked because it operates on time scales many
orders of magnitude less than those of animals. Plants are sessile
organisms. As such, the only alternative to a rapidly changing
environment is rapid adaptation. This book will focus on all these
new and exciting aspects of plant biology.
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