ArticleProtoplasma2021
Anaesthetics and plants: from sensory systems to cognition-based adaptive behaviour.
Article in Protoplasma, 2021. 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, 49 citations in OpenAlex.
- Synchronized Chromatin Reorganization as a Key Biomarker in Anesthetic Effects on Plants.Chemical & biomedical imaging · 2026Article
- Understanding otherness-the anthropocentrism trap.Protoplasma · 2025Article
- A litmus test for plant consciousness: Pattern-Temporal Synergy in a relation-first ontology.Communicative & integrative biology · 2025Article
- Mechanosensing and anesthesia of single internodal cells ofPlant signaling & behavior · 2024Article
- Touch, light, wounding: how anaesthetics affect plant sensing abilities.Plant cell reports · 2024Review
- Our sisters the plants? notes from phylogenetics and botany on plant kinship blindness.Plant signaling & behavior · 2021Article
- Intelligence without neurons: a Turing Test for plants?Protoplasma · 2021Article
- Biomolecular Basis of Cellular Consciousness via Subcellular Nanobrains.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- Sensitive or sentient-a painful debate.Protoplasma · 2021Article
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Abstract
Plants are not only sensitive to exogenous anaesthetics, but they also produce multitudes of endogenous substances, especially when stressed, that often have anaesthetic and anelgesic properties when applied to both humans and animals. Moreover, plants rely on neurotransmitters and their receptors for cell-cell communication and integration in a similar fashion to the use of neural systems in animals and humans. Plants also use their plant-specific sensory systems and neurotransmitter-based communication, including long-distance action potentials, to manage stress via cognition-like plant-specific behaviour and adaptation.
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