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Bouteau F, Grésillon E, Chartier D, Arbelet-Bonnin D, Kawano T, Baluška F, Mancuso S, Calvo P, Laurenti P. Our sisters the plants? notes from phylogenetics and botany on plant kinship blindness. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2021; 16:2004769. [PMID: 34913409 PMCID: PMC9208782 DOI: 10.1080/15592324.2021.2004769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2021] [Revised: 07/13/2021] [Accepted: 11/08/2021] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
Abstract
Before the upheaval brought about by phylogenetic classification, classical taxonomy separated living beings into two distinct kingdoms, animals and plants. Rooted in 'naturalist' cosmology, Western science has built its theoretical apparatus on this dichotomy mostly based on ancient Aristotelian ideas. Nowadays, despite the adoption of the Darwinian paradigm that unifies living organisms as a kinship, the concept of the "scale of beings" continues to structure our analysis and understanding of living species. Our aim is to combine developments in phylogeny, recent advances in biology, and renewed interest in plant agency to craft an interdisciplinary stance on the living realm. The lines at the origin of plant or animal have a common evolutionary history dating back to about 3.9 Ga, separating only 1.6 Ga ago. From a phylogenetic perspective of living species history, plants and animals belong to sister groups. With recent data related to the field of Plant Neurobiology, our aim is to discuss some socio-cultural obstacles, mainly in Western naturalist epistemology, that have prevented the integration of living organisms as relatives, while suggesting a few avenues inspired by practices principally from other ontologies that could help overcome these obstacles and build bridges between different ways of connecting to life.
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Affiliation(s)
- François Bouteau
- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Des Énergies de Demain, Université de Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Dynamiques Sociales Et Recomposition Des Espaces (Ladyss-umr 7533), Université de Paris, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Dynamiques Sociales Et Recomposition Des Espaces (Ladyss-umr 7533), Université de Paris, Paris, France
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- Graduate School of Environmental Engineering, University of Kitakyushu 1–1, KitakyushuJapan
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- Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- LINV-DiSPAA, Department of Agri-Food and Environmental Science, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
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- Minimal Intelligence Lab, Department of Philosophy, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Des Énergies de Demain, Université de Paris, France
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Baluška F, Mancuso S. Individuality, self and sociality of vascular plants. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2021; 376:20190760. [PMID: 33550947 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0760] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Vascular plants are integrated into coherent bodies via plant-specific synaptic adhesion domains, action potentials (APs) and other means of long-distance signalling running throughout the plant bodies. Plant-specific synapses and APs are proposed to allow plants to generate their self identities having unique ways of sensing and acting as agents with their own goals guiding their future activities. Plants move their organs with a purpose and with obvious awareness of their surroundings and require APs to perform and control these movements. Self-identities allow vascular plants to act as individuals enjoying sociality via their self/non-self-recognition and kin recognition. Flowering plants emerge as cognitive and intelligent organisms when the major strategy is to attract and control their animal pollinators as well as seed dispersers by providing them with food enriched with nutritive and manipulative/addictive compounds. Their goal in interactions with animals is manipulation for reproduction, dispersal and defence. This article is part of the theme issue 'Basal cognition: multicellularity, neurons and the cognitive lens'.
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- Department of Agrifood Production and Environmental Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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Breitler JC, Djerrab D, Leran S, Toniutti L, Guittin C, Severac D, Pratlong M, Dereeper A, Etienne H, Bertrand B. Full moonlight-induced circadian clock entrainment in Coffea arabica. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2020; 20:24. [PMID: 31941456 PMCID: PMC6961272 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-020-2238-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2019] [Accepted: 01/03/2020] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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BACKGROUND It is now well documented that moonlight affects the life cycle of invertebrates, birds, reptiles, and mammals. The lunisolar tide is also well-known to alter plant growth and development. However, although plants are known to be very photosensitive, few studies have been undertaken to explore the effect of moonlight on plant physiology. RESULTS Here for the first time we report a massive transcriptional modification in Coffea arabica genes under full moonlight conditions, particularly at full moon zenith and 3 h later. Among the 3387 deregulated genes found in our study, the main core clock genes were affected. CONCLUSIONS Moonlight also negatively influenced many genes involved in photosynthesis, chlorophyll biosynthesis and chloroplast machinery at the end of the night, suggesting that the full moon has a negative effect on primary photosynthetic machinery at dawn. Moreover, full moonlight promotes the transcription of major rhythmic redox genes and many heat shock proteins, suggesting that moonlight is perceived as stress. We confirmed this huge impact of weak light (less than 6 lx) on the transcription of circadian clock genes in controlled conditions mimicking full moonlight.
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- J-C Breitler
- CIRAD, UMR IPME, F-34398, Montpellier, France.
- UMR IPME, Univ. Montpellier, CIRAD, IRD, F-34394, Montpellier, France.
- INECOL, Clúster BioMimic, 34394, Xalapa Enríquez, Ver, Mexico.
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- CIRAD, UMR IPME, F-34398, Montpellier, France
- UMR IPME, Univ. Montpellier, CIRAD, IRD, F-34394, Montpellier, France
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- CIRAD, UMR IPME, F-34398, Montpellier, France
- UMR IPME, Univ. Montpellier, CIRAD, IRD, F-34394, Montpellier, France
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- CIRAD, UMR IPME, F-34398, Montpellier, France
- UMR IPME, Univ. Montpellier, CIRAD, IRD, F-34394, Montpellier, France
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- UMR IPME, Univ. Montpellier, CIRAD, IRD, F-34394, Montpellier, France
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- CNRS, Montpellier GenomiX, c/o Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle, 141 rue de la Cardonille, Cedex 34, Montpellier, France
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- CNRS, Montpellier GenomiX, c/o Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle, 141 rue de la Cardonille, Cedex 34, Montpellier, France
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- UMR IPME, Univ. Montpellier, CIRAD, IRD, F-34394, Montpellier, France
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- CIRAD, UMR IPME, F-34398, Montpellier, France
- UMR IPME, Univ. Montpellier, CIRAD, IRD, F-34394, Montpellier, France
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- CIRAD, UMR IPME, F-34398, Montpellier, France
- UMR IPME, Univ. Montpellier, CIRAD, IRD, F-34394, Montpellier, France
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