Daniel Chamovitz, PhD, is the director of the Manna Center for Plant Biosciences at Tel Aviv University. His research has appeared in leading scientific journals. He lives in Hod Hasharon, Israel.
How does a Venus flytrap know when to snap shut? Can it feel an insect’s spindly legs? How do flowers know when it’s spring? Can they actually remember the weather? And do they care if you play them Led Zeppelin or Bach?
From Darwin’s early fascination with stems and vines to Little Shop of Horrors, we have always marveled at plant diversity and form. Now, in What a Plant Knows, the renowned biologist Daniel Chamovitz presents an intriguing and refreshing look at how plants experience the world. Highlighting the latest research in plant science, he takes us into the lives of different types of plants, and draws parallels with the human senses to reveal that we have much more in common with sunflowers and oak trees than we may realize. He explains how a willow knows when its neighbors have been taken over by a group of hungry beetles, and why an avocado will ripen in a paper bag with a banana (it’s the pheromones). He shows how plants know up from down, and settles the debate, once and for all, over whether or not plants appreciate that music you’ve been playing. Covering touch, sound, smell, sight, and even memory, Chamovitz considers whether it’s too much to ask if plants are aware.
What a Plant Knows is a rare inside look at what life is really like for the grass we walk on, the flowers we sniff, and the trees we climb. It is a true field guide to the senses for science buffs and green thumbs, and for anyone who seeks a greater understanding of our place in nature.
發表於2024-07-01
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說到“植物”你會想到什麼呢?是爺爺奶奶養的盆花?還是每天盤中的小菜?是每天路過的街邊樹木?還是花店中的琳琅滿目?或者僅僅隻是一片片美好的綠色? 我想到的是“神秘”這個詞。可能是因為看瞭太多神鬼妖魔之類的書和電影,植物的世界對於我來說好似一個隻見...
評分 評分 評分問題一: <原文開始>“受細菌侵害的葉子會釋放一種叫做水楊酸甲酯的氣體;被害蟲攝食的葉子就不會釋放這種氣體,但會産生另 一種叫茉莉酸甲酯的氣體”。</原文結束> 後文中作者提到,水楊酸是阿司匹林的化學前體,而溶於水的水楊酸可轉化為水楊酸甲酯。水楊酸甲酯用作人類身...
評分植物知道生命的答案,學術性的知識,易讀的措辭讓我很容易填補各種自己生物知識空白區。每次看到植物,都滿心雀躍,嘴角上揚。植物在我內心最具有正能量,觸碰它們你會感到那種淡然的心境。 植物能看到什麼?植物能嗅到什麼?植物能感受到什麼?植物能聽到什麼?植物如何知道...
圖書標籤: 科普 植物 自然科學 生物 植物之書 自然 英文原版 英文
簡單易讀的科普 挺短的
評分Touch the leaves of an oak, knowing that the tree will remember it was touched. But it won’t remember you. You, on the other hand, can remember this particular tree and carry the memory of it with you forever. 還成吧 基礎生物知識
評分簡單的科普小書,英文版正文部分隻有130多頁,很容易讀完。植物真是安靜,聰明,又可愛的生物啊!
評分1st:20140426-20140428.
評分對於貫穿全書的唯機械論解釋還是報懷疑態度,不過基本演繹法還是亮
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