ArticlePlant signaling & behavior2012
Acoustic and magnetic communication in plants: Is it possible?
Article in Plant signaling & behavior, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Stress-Induced Volatile Emissions and Signalling in Inter-Plant Communication.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Is There a Role for Sound in Plants?Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Flexible control of movement in plants.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Tuned in: plant roots use sound to locate water.Oecologia · 2017Article
- Does the whistling thorn acacia (Acacia drepanolobium) use auditory aposematism to deter mammalian herbivores?Plant signaling & behavior · 2016Article
- Swarms, swarming and entanglements of fungal hyphae and of plant roots.Communicative & integrative biology · 2013Article
- Green symphonies: a call for studies on acoustic communication in plants.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology · 2013Article
- Love thy neighbour: facilitation through an alternative signalling modality in plants.BMC ecology · 2013Article
- The natural history of consciousness, and the question of whether plants are conscious, in relation to the Hameroff-Penrose quantum-physical 'Orch OR' theory of universal consciousness.Communicative & integrative biologyArticle
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Abstract
Over the last two decades, important insights into our understanding of plant ecology and the communicative nature of plants have not only confirmed the existence of a wide range of communication means used by plants, but most excitingly have indicated that more modalities remain to be discovered. In fact, we have recently found that seeds and seedlings of the chili plant, Capsicum annuum, are able to sense neighbors and identify relatives using alternative mechanisms beyond previously studied channels of plant communication. In this addendum, we offer a hypothetical mechanistic explanation as to how plants may do this by quantum-assisted magnetic and/or acoustic sensing and signaling. If proven correct, this hypothesis prompts for a re-interpretation of our current understanding of plasticity in germination and growth of plants and more generally, calls for developing a new perspective of these biological phenomena.
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