Plants require the capacity for quick and precise recognition of external stimuli within their environment for survival. Upon exposure to biotic (herbivores and pathogens) or abiotic …
Globally, environmental concerns and energy security uncertainties related to fossil fuels have resulted in a shift toward affordable, clean energy and renewable energy sources …
P Calvo, K Friston - Journal of the Royal Society …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In this article we account for the way plants respond to salient features of their environment under the free-energy principle for biological systems. Biological self-organization amounts …
Provides a comprehensive treatment of surface chemistry and its applications to chemical engineering, biology, and medicine. Focuses on the chmical and physical structure of oil …
AG Volkov, T Adesina, VS Markin, E Jovanov - Plant physiology, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) possesses an active trapping mechanism to capture insects with one of the most rapid movements in the plant kingdom, as described by …
Membrane potentials (V m) and intracellular calcium variations were studied in Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus) leaves when the Mediterranean climbing cutworm (Spodoptera …
The basic leucine (Leu) zipper (bZIP) proteins compose a family of transcriptional regulators present exclusively in eukaryotes. The bZIP proteins characteristically harbor a bZIP domain …
M Szechyńska-Hebda, M Lewandowska… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Electrical signaling in higher plants is required for the appropriate intracellular and intercellular communication, stress responses, growth and development. In this review, we …