2008. Vol. 50, N 2. p. 154-159
PROPAGATED ELECTRICAL SIGNALS IN PLANTS

S. S. Pyatygin

Department of Biophysics, N. I. Lobachevsky State University, Nizhny Novgorod;
e-mail: pyatygin@bio.unn.ru

The present paper generalizes the new data and gives an account of the current notions about properties, mechanisms of generation, and functional role of propagated electrical signals in the form of action potentials and variation potentials in plants.

Key words:  plants, action potential, variation potential, ionic mechanism, functional role


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