Biocommunication of Plants

Plants are sessile, highly sensitive organisms that actively compete for environmental resources both above and below the ground. They assess their surroundings, estimate how much energy they need for particular goals, and then realise the optimum variant. They take measures to control certain environmental resources. They perceive themselves and can distinguish between 'self' and 'non-self'. They process and evaluate information and then modify their behaviour accordingly. These highly diverse competences are made possible by parallel sign(alling)-mediated communication processes within the p.

""Gravity Sensing, Interpretation, and Response""

Biocommunication of Plants -- Preface -- Why Biocommunication in Plants? -- Contents -- Key Levels of Biocommunication in Plants -- 1 With Communication, Plants Coordinate Complex Interactions -- 2 Semiochemical Vocabulary: Transmitters, Hormones, RNAs, Reusable Elements -- 2.1 Signaling Molecules Serve in More than One Communication Process -- 2.2 Interpretation and Response Behavior to Sensory Data of Inanimated Nature -- 3 Transorganismic Communication -- 4 Interorganismic Communication in Plants -- 5 Intraorganismic Communication

5.1 Intercellular Communication5.2 Intracellular Communication -- 5.3 Viral Symbiotic Interactions -- References -- Information, Noise and Communication: Thresholds as Controlling Elements in Development -- 1 What Is Information? -- 2 Noise in Transmission of Information Degrades Accuracy in Response -- 2.1 Noise Is Likely Inevitable in Living Systems -- 2.2 Evidence for Noise in Genetic Circuitry -- 2.3 Noise Can Spontaneously Induce Polarity and Ensure Each Cell Is Effectively a Unique Phenotype

2.4 Transcription and Translation in Single Cells Takes Place in Brief Bursts2.5 Is Noise Useful or If Not, Can It Be Reduced? -- 3 Consequences of Signal…