Inter-cellular Electrical Signals in Plant Adaptation and Communication

• Main Author: Vicenta Salvador-Recatal (auth)
• Other Authors: Kazimierz Trebacz (auth), Simon Gilroy (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Physiology; nitric oxide; environmental stress; photosynthesis; Arabidopsis; phloem; intracellular calcium; circumnutation; action potential; plant electrophysiology; ion channels
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Plants use the Sun's energy to synthesize the basic biomolecules that make up all the organic matter of all organisms of terrestrial ecosystems, including ourselves. Therefore, understanding their adaptive mechanisms to variations of environmental factors, both biotic and abiotic, is fundamenta...