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Opinion
The Quest for Cognition in Plant Neurobiology
Francisco Calvo Garzon
volume 2 | issue 4
july/august 2007Pages: 208 - 211
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Plant neurobiology (Brenner et al., 2006) has emerged in the last few years as a result of the incorporation of new knowledge from well established areas of research such as plant electrophysiology, cell biology, molecular biology, and ecology. The difference between plant neurobiology and other more basic disciplines resides in the target of these interdisciplinary efforts which is the study of the complex patterns of behaviour of plants qua information-processing systems. Despite the youth of plant neurobiology, a body of empirical literature has grown and new results and questions have been reported and formulated (Baluška et al., 2006; Barlow, submitted). Very recently, however, a number of researchers sceptical of the overall effort that plant neurobiology represents have teamed up (Alpi et al., 2007) in order to manifest their concern “with the rationale behind” the approach. In their view, the newly born discipline does not furnish plant sciences, writ large, with any deeper understanding that is not in principle empirically achievable by, say, plant physiology.
Authors
Francisco Calvo Garzon
Universidad de Murcia
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