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11. Why control an experiment?

Author

Torday, John S and Baluška, František

Subjects
Consciousness, Empiricism, Science, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Developmental Biology
Abstract

Empirical research is based on observation and experimentation. Yet, experimental controls are essential for overcoming our sensory limits and generating reliable, unbiased and objective results.

Published
2019

15. Slime mould: the fundamental mechanisms of cognition

Author

Vallverdu, Jordi, Castro, Oscar, Mayne, Richard, Talanov, Max, Levin, Michael, Baluska, Frantisek, Gunji, Yukio, Dussutour, Audrey, Zenil, Hector, and Adamatzky, Andrew

Subjects
Computer Science - Emerging Technologies
Abstract

The slime mould Physarum polycephalum has been used in developing unconventional computing devices for in which the slime mould played a role of a sensing, actuating, and computing device. These devices treated the slime mould rather as an active living substrate yet the slime mould is a self-consistent living creature which evolved for millions of years and occupied most part of the world, but in any case, that living entity did not own true cognition, just automated biochemical mechanisms. To "rehabilitate" the slime mould from the rank of a purely living electronics element to a "creature of thoughts" we are analyzing the cognitive potential of P. polycephalum. We base our theory of minimal cognition of the slime mould on a bottom-up approach, from the biological and biophysical nature of the slime mould and its regulatory systems using frameworks suh as Lyon's biogenic cognition, Muller, di Primio-Lengeler\'s modifiable pathways, Bateson's "patterns that connect" framework, Maturana's autopoetic network, or proto-consciousness and Morgan's Canon.

Published
2017

16. Computers from plants we never made. Speculations

Author

Adamatzky, Andrew, Harding, Simon, Erokhin, Victor, Mayne, Richard, Gizzie, Nina, Baluska, Frantisek, Mancuso, Stefano, and Sirakoulis, Georgios

Subjects
Computer Science - Emerging Technologies
Abstract

We discuss possible designs and prototypes of computing systems that could be based on morphological development of roots, interaction of roots, and analog electrical computation with plants, and plant-derived electronic components. In morphological plant processors data are represented by initial configuration of roots and configurations of sources of attractants and repellents; results of computation are represented by topology of the roots' network. Computation is implemented by the roots following gradients of attractants and repellents, as well as interacting with each other. Problems solvable by plant roots, in principle, include shortest-path, minimum spanning tree, Voronoi diagram, $\alpha$-shapes, convex subdivision of concave polygons. Electrical properties of plants can be modified by loading the plants with functional nanoparticles or coating parts of plants of conductive polymers. Thus, we are in position to make living variable resistors, capacitors, operational amplifiers, multipliers, potentiometers and fixed-function generators. The electrically modified plants can implement summation, integration with respect to time, inversion, multiplication, exponentiation, logarithm, division. Mathematical and engineering problems to be solved can be represented in plant root networks of resistive or reaction elements. Developments in plant-based computing architectures will trigger emergence of a unique community of biologists, electronic engineering and computer scientists working together to produce living electronic devices which future green computers will be made of., Comment: The chapter will be published in "Inspired by Nature. Computing inspired by physics, chemistry and biology. Essays presented to Julian Miller on the occasion of his 60th birthday", Editors: Susan Stepney and Andrew Adamatzky (Springer, 2017)

Published
2017

17. Sentient cells as basic units of tissues, organs and organismal physiology.

Author

Baluška, František, Miller, William B., and Reber, Arthur S.

Subjects
*TISSUES, *EVOLUTIONARY theories, *COGNITION, *CONSCIOUSNESS, *MULTICELLULAR organisms
Abstract

Cells evolved some 4 billion years ago, and since then the integrity of the structural and functional continuity of cellular life has been maintained via highly conserved and ancient processes of cell reproduction and division. The plasma membrane as well as all the cytoplasmic structures are reproduced and inherited uninterruptedly by each of the two daughter cells resulting from every cell division. Although our understanding of the evolutionary emergence of the very first cells is obscured by the extremely long timeline since that revolutionary event, the generally accepted position is that the de novo formation of cells is not possible; all present cells are products of other prior cells. This essential biological principle was first discovered by Robert Remak and then effectively coined as Omnis Cellula e Cellula (every cell of the cell) by Rudolf Virchow: all currently living cells have direct structural and functional connections to the very first cells. Based on our previous theoretical analysis, all cells are endowed with individual sentient cognition that guides their individual agency, behaviour and evolution. There is a vital consequence of this new sentient and cognitive view of cells: when cells assemble as functional tissue ecologies and organs within multicellular organisms, including plants, animals and humans, these cellular aggregates display derivative versions of aggregate tissue‐ and organ‐specific sentience and consciousness. This innovative view of the evolution and physiology of all currently living organisms supports a singular principle: all organismal physiology is based on cellular physiology that extends from unicellular roots. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2024
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18. On plant roots logical gates

Author

Adamatzky, Andrew, Sirakoulis, Georgios, Martinez, Genaro J., Baluska, Frantisek, and Mancuso, Stefano

Subjects
Computer Science - Emerging Technologies
Abstract

Theoretical constructs of logical gates implemented with plant roots are morphological computing asynchronous devices. Values of Boolean variables are represented by plant roots. A presence of a plant root at a given site symbolises the logical {\sc True}, an absence the logical {\sc False}. Logical functions are calculated via interaction between roots. Two types of two-inputs-two-outputs gates are proposed: a gate $\langle x, y \rangle \rightarrow \langle xy, x+y \rangle$ where root apexes are guided by gravity and a gate $\langle x, y \rangle \rightarrow \langle \overline{x}y, x \rangle$ where root apexes are guided by humidity. We propose a design of binary half-adder based on the gates.

Published
2016

33. Computers from Plants We Never Made: Speculations

Author

Adamatzky, Andrew, Harding, Simon, Erokhin, Victor, Mayne, Richard, Gizzie, Nina, Baluška, Frantisek, Mancuso, Stefano, Sirakoulis, Georgios Ch., Zelinka, Ivan, Series editor, Adamatzky, Andrew, Series editor, Chen, Guanrong, Series editor, and Stepney, Susan, editor

Published
2018
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35. PIN2 /3/4 Auxin Carriers Mediate Root Growth Inhibition under Conditions of Boron Deprivation in Arabidopsis

Author

Tao, Lin, primary, Zhu, Hu, additional, Huang, Qiuyu, additional, Xiao, Xiaoyi, additional, Luo, Ying, additional, Wang, Hui, additional, Li, Yalin, additional, Li, Xuewen, additional, Liu, Jiayou, additional, Jásik, Ján, additional, Chen, Yinglong, additional, Shabala, Sergey, additional, Baluška, František, additional, Shi, Weiming, additional, Shi, Lei, additional, and Yu, Min, additional

Published
2023
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37. Corrigendum : Autophagy-related approaches for improving nutrient use efficiency and crop yield protection

Author

Avin-Wittenberg, Tamar, Baluška, Frantisek, Bozhkov, Peter V., Elander, Pernilla H., Fernie, Alisdair R., Galili, Gad, Hassan, Ammar, Hofius, Daniel, Isono, Erika, Le Bars, Romain, Masclaux-Daubresse, Céline, Minina, Elena A., Peled-Zehavi, Hadas, Coll, Núria S., Sandalio, Luisa M., Satiat-Jeunemaitre, Béatrice, Sirko, Agnieszka, Testillano, Pilar S., and Batoko, Henri

Published
2018

39. Auxin and Vesicle Traffic

Author

Robinson, David G., Hawes, Chris, Hillmer, Stefan, Jürgens, Gerd, Schwechheimer, Claus, Stierhof, York-Dieter, Viotti, Corrado, Baluška, František, Strnad, Miroslav, and Mancuso, Stefano

Published
2018

41. Autophagy-related approaches for improving nutrient use efficiency and crop yield protection

Author

Avin-Wittenberg, Tamar, Baluška, Frantisek, Bozhkov, Peter V., Elander, Pernilla H., Fernie, Alisdair R., Galili, Gad, Hassan, Ammar, Hofius, Daniel, Isono, Erika, Le Bars, Romain, Masclaux-Daubresse, Céline, Minina, Elena A., Peled-Zehavi, Hadas, Coll, Núria S., Sandalio, Luisa M., Satiat-Jeunemaitre, Béatrice, Sirko, Agnieszka, Testillano, Pilar S., and Batoko, Henri

Published
2018

44. The Tetracentron genome provides insight into the early evolution of eudicots and the formation of vessel elements

Author

Liu, Ping-Li, Zhang, Xi, Mao, Jian-Feng, Hong, Yan-Ming, Zhang, Ren-Gang, E, Yilan, Nie, Shuai, Jia, Kaihua, Jiang, Chen-Kun, He, Jian, Shen, Weiwei, He, Qizouhong, Zheng, Wenqing, Abbas, Samar, Jewaria, Pawan Kumar, Tian, Xuechan, Liu, Chang-jun, Jiang, Xiaomei, Yin, Yafang, Liu, Bo, Wang, Li, Jin, Biao, Ma, Yongpeng, Qiu, Zongbo, Baluška, František, Šamaj, Jozef, He, Xinqiang, Niu, Shihui, Xie, Jianbo, Xie, Lei, Xu, Huimin, Kong, Hongzhi, Ge, Song, Dixon, Richard A., Jiao, Yuannian, and Lin, Jinxing

Published
2020
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49. Boron supply restores aluminum‐blocked auxin transport by the modulation of PIN2 trafficking in the root apical transition zone

Author

Tao, Lin, primary, Xiao, Xiaoyi, additional, Huang, Qiuyu, additional, Zhu, Hu, additional, Feng, Yingming, additional, Li, Yalin, additional, Li, Xuewen, additional, Guo, Zhishan, additional, Liu, Jiayou, additional, Wu, Feihua, additional, Pirayesh, Niloufar, additional, Mahmud, Sakil, additional, Shen, Ren Fang, additional, Shabala, Sergey, additional, Baluška, František, additional, Shi, Lei, additional, and Yu, Min, additional

Published
2023
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