1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910511307203321

Autore

Cep, Casey

Titolo

Ore disperate : l'ultimo processo di Harper Lee / Casey Cep ; traduzione di Sara Bilotti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma, : Minimum fax, 2020

ISBN

978-88-338-9157-6

Descrizione fisica

393 p. : ill. ; 21 cm

Collana

Sotterranei ; 232

Disciplina

813

Locazione

FSPBC

Collocazione

COLLEZ. 2875 (232)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Contiene bibl. (pp. 385-393)



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910972511203321

Autore

Karban Richard

Titolo

Plant Sensing and Communication / / Richard Karban

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

9780226264707

022626470X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Collana

Interspecific Interactions

Classificazione

WN 1750

Disciplina

581.4

Soggetti

Plant physiology

Plant ecology

Plant behavior

Plant communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Plant Behavior and Communication -- 2. Plant Sensory Capabilities -- 3. Plant Learning and Memory -- 4. Cues and Signals in Plant Communication -- 5. Plant Responses to Cues about Resources -- 6. Plant Responses to Herbivory -- 7. Plant Communication and Reproduction -- 8. Microbes and Plant Communication -- 9. Plant Sensing and Communication as Adaptations -- 10. Plant Sensing and Communication in Agriculture and Medicine -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 headlines point to an overlooked truth: plants do in fact perceive environmental cues and respond rapidly to them by changing their chemical, morphological, and behavioral traits. In Plant Sensing and Communication, Richard Karban provides the first comprehensive overview of what is known about how



plants perceive their environments, communicate those perceptions, and learn. Facing many of the same challenges as animals, plants have developed many similar capabilities: they sense light, chemicals, mechanical stimulation, temperature, electricity, and sound. Moreover, prior experiences have lasting impacts on sensitivity and response to cues; plants, in essence, have memory. Nor are their senses limited to the processes of an individual plant: plants eavesdrop on the cues and behaviors of neighbors and-for example, through flowers and fruits-exchange information with other types of organisms. Far from inanimate organisms limited by their stationary existence, plants, this book makes unquestionably clear, are in constant and lively discourse.