Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0060425

Zusammenfassung

A most intriguing question in behavioral sciences is whether organisms without a nervous system are capable of learning. It is intended to answer this question with the best-known learning example in animals - Pavlovian conditioning - by examining the ability of plants to associate a neutral stimulus with an honest cue. If plants display such learning, this will challenge our perception of plants as insensible beings. Pavlovian learning will be studied in three model plants: Mimosa pudica, Dionaea muscipula, and Arabidopsis thaliana. Two types of learning will be explored: classical co...