Plant Responses to Environmental Stimuli

Michel Thellier has had a career of professor in plant physiology and biophysics at the University. He has been the Chief Editor of the American journal “J. Trace Microprobe Techniques” and the Associate Editor of the series “Biology” of the proceedings of the French Academy of Science. He has been the author or editor of a dozen books dealing with plant and cell biology. He is a Member of the French Academy of Science and of the French Academy of Agriculture. All along his career, he has taken a particular interest in plant sensitivity to stimuli. Today, he wishes to help people understand how plant can possess a real capacity of memory, which is, both, so different from ours and so well adapted to the characteristics of its close environment.

• Acknowledgements.- Forewords.- Plant and Recollection.- Chapter 1: Me: A Plant.- Chapter 2: Plant Sensitivity.- Chapter 3: Discovery of a Plant Memory Controlling Bud-precedence Specification.- Chapter 4: Other Approaches of the Storage/Recall Form of Plant Memory.- Chapter 5: Effect of a Repetition of the Same Stimulus: The “Priming” Form of Plant Memory.- Chapter 6: Comparing Plant with Animal Memory.- Chapter 7: What is the Utility for a Plant to Possess Memory.- Chapter 8: Towards a Synthesis.- Epilogue.- Appendix 1: Information Coding and Secret Messages.- Appendix 2: Brief Responses to a Few Interrogations About Molecular Biology.- Appendix 3: Calcium Condensation/Decondensation.- Glossary.- Bibliography.