What a Plant Knows (and other things you didn’t know about plants)

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  • À son rythme
  • Accès libre
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  • 7 séquences
  • Niveau Introductif

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Détails du cours

Déroulé

Week 1 - Introduction: 
Why we study plants, plant influence on evolution of the Earth.

Week 2 - 
What a Plant Sees: 
Over view of human vision, plant responses to light, Darwin and phototropism, phytochrome and flowering and modern research.

Week 3 - 
What a Plant Smells: 
Over view of human olfaction, Introduction to the plant cell and membranes, ethylene and fruit ripening, Cuscuta and plants smelling plants, Baldwin's experiments and plant olfactory communication.

Week 4 - What a Plant Feels: 
Over view of human physical sensory mechanisms, Venus fly trap, plant responses to shaking, Do plants hear?

Week 5 - How a Plant Knows Where it is: 
Overview human proprioception, Early experiments in gravitropism, root structure and the gravi-sensing mechanism, phototropism and discovery of auxin, gravitropism in space.

Week 6 - What a Plant Remembers: 
Overview of the human memory, electrical memory and Venus Fly trap, epigenetics and long-term memory.

Week 7 - The Aware Plant: 
Theoretical discussion on the definition of memory and consciousness and a quick examination of "intelligence".

Prérequis

Aucun.

Intervenants

  • Daniel Chamovitz - Director, Manna Center for Plant Biosciences

Éditeur

Tel Aviv University (TAU) is Israel's largest institution of higher learning – with over 30,000 students and more than 125 schools and departments in nine faculties. Global in outlook and impact, it is consistently ranked among the world's top 100 universities, as well as the top 20 institutions in terms of scientific citations. A spirit of openness and innovation is evident in all of TAU's teaching and research activities, breaking down barriers between disciplines, and boldly striving to address the twenty-first century's most pressing challenges.

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