ArticleOecologia2014
Experience teaches plants to learn faster and forget slower in environments where it matters.
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74 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Plants have two minds as we do.Plant signaling & behavior · 2025Review
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- The transcriptional mechanism behind Mimosa pudica leaf folding in response to mechanical disturbance.Planta · 2025Article
- Using (disruptive) eco-visualization to re-connect humans to nature: results from workshops with youth and adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
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- Minimal motifs for habituating systems.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- β-Aminobutyric acid promotes stress tolerance, physiological adjustments, as well as broad epigenetic changes at DNA and RNA nucleobases in field elms (Ulmus minor).BMC plant biology · 2024Article
- How (not) to Talk to a Plant: An Application of Automata Theory to Plant Communication.Acta biotheoretica · 2024Article
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Abstract
The nervous system of animals serves the acquisition, memorization and recollection of information. Like animals, plants also acquire a huge amount of information from their environment, yet their capacity to memorize and organize learned behavioral responses has not been demonstrated. In Mimosa pudica-the sensitive plant-the defensive leaf-folding behaviour in response to repeated physical disturbance exhibits clear habituation, suggesting some elementary form of learning. Applying the theory and the analytical methods usually employed in animal learning research, we show that leaf-folding habituation is more pronounced and persistent for plants growing in energetically costly environments. Astonishingly, Mimosa can display the learned response even when left undisturbed in a more favourable environment for a month. This relatively long-lasting learned behavioural change as a result of previous experience matches the persistence of habituation effects observed in many animals.
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