Touch, light, wounding: how anaesthetics affect plant sensing abilities
Andrej Pavlovič · 2024
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Andrej Pavlovič offers a two thousand twenty-four review of how anaesthetics blunt plant sensing. Plants sense touch, light, and wounding through electrical and calcium signals. The same drugs that silence animal nerves also quiet these plant responses, a fact with evolutionary bite.
Volatile anaesthetics block long-distance signalling in plants, likely through glutamate-receptor-like channels resembling animal nerve targets. They also stress plant cells, triggering their own calcium signatures and gene changes. Ion channel effects, especially calcium influx, tie the story together. Anaesthesia appears to be an ancient vulnerability of living signalling systems.
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| CREATOR | Andrej Pavlovič |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |