Plant Sensing and Communication

by Richard Karban

The news that a flowering weed-mousear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana)-can sense the particular chewing noise of its most common caterpillar predator and adjust its chemical defenses in response led to headlines announcing the discovery of the first "hearing" plant. As plants lack central nervous systems (and, indeed, ears), the mechanisms behind this "hearing" are unquestionably very different from those of our own acoustic sense, but the misleading...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022626470X
• ISBN13: 9780226264707
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"