FATIMA CVRČKOVÁ*, HANA KONRÁDOVÁ
BIOCELL, Vol.46, No.3, pp. 645-649, 2022, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2022.018114
- 18 November 2021
Abstract The possibility of associative learning in plants is a topic of ongoing controversy. In one published study, growing pea plants were reported to associate two stimuli (airflow and light) and thereafter use one (airflow) as an indicator for the other (light), similar to dogs in Pavlov’s famous experiments. However, this observation could not be independently repeated. Here we examine a possible reason for the failure of a published reproduction attempt, which used substantially different light quality during plant cultivation prior to experimental treatments than in the original study. This could have resulted in dramatically different More >
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