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ArticlePlant signaling & behavior2021

Barbara G. Pickard - Queen of Plant Electrophysiology.

František Baluška, Stefano Mancuso, Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh

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Article in Plant signaling & behavior, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. The "plant neurobiology" revolution.Plant signaling & behavior · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

František BaluškaIZMB, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Stefano MancusoDepartment of Agrifood Production and Environmental Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Elizabeth Van VolkenburghBiology Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Barbara Gillespie Pickard (1936-2019) studied plant electrophysiology and mechanosensory biology for more than 50 y. Her first papers on the roles of auxin in plant tropisms were coauthored with Kenneth V. Thimann. Later, she studied plant electrophysiology. She made it clear that plant action potentials are not a peculiar feature of so-called sensitive plants, but that all plants exhibit these fast electric signals. Barbara Gillespie Pickard proposed a neuronal model for the spreading of electric signals induced by mechanical stimuli across plant tissues. In later years, she studied the stretch-activated plasma membrane channels of plants and formulated the plasma-membrane control center model. Barbara Pickard summarized all her findings in a new model of phyllotaxis involving waves of auxin fluxes and mechano-sensory signaling.

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Plant Physiological PhenomenaElectrophysiologyHistory, 20th CenturyHistory, 21st CenturyHumansIndoleacetic AcidsResearch PersonnelTrichomesTropismUnited StatesIndoleacetic AcidsAction potentialsauxinbioelectricityCa2+ signalingelectrophysiologymechanosensoryphyllotaxisplant neurobiologyplant tropismstrichomes

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PMID33853497
PMCPMC8143215

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