The Electrome of a Parasitic Plant in a Putative State of Attention Increases the Energy of Low Band Frequency Waves: A Comparative Study with Neural Systems

" Our results corroborate the hypothesis that plants under putative states of attention or active perception increase the energy expended in this activity [9]. This was particularly clear in this study when a suitable host was presented to C. racemosa. After approximated 20 min, the dodder allocated more energy to the electrome, specifically to low wave frequencies, and after around 60 min, a peak in the energy of the frequencies in all the plants was observed in the dodders presented to the bean plant." {Credits 1}

" Although it would be important to further investigate the links between the cyclic and low-frequency activities in C. racemosa and many other plants, our results indicated that, whatever the cognitive value we attribute to the perceptual process involved (such as selective attention), the operating mode was, in the particular case of the dodder: (1) host-selective (operational choice), (2) energy-intensive (in proportion to the frequencies detected), (3) associated with a possible state of attention on transdisciplinary grounds [9], and (4) of a mesological order (Umwelt of plants, a direct link with their singular milieu [44,45])." {Credits 1}

" This is in line with other studies on electrome complexity [26,40,43], including some that demonstrated specific electromic signatures in pathogen-infected plants [28,46], bioelectric patterns of oscillations recorded in loco in Miconia sp. [30], and bioelectrical reaction of fruit petioles when fruits are chewed by caterpillars [32]. Our study now shows that low-frequency peaks likely predominate in these electromes, but higher frequency bands also exist, which is a novel finding. To our knowledge, gamma-like waves in plants were never recorded before this study." {Credits 1}

{Credits 1} 🎪 Parise, A.G.; Oliveira, T.F.d.C.; Debono, M.-W.; Souza, G.M. The Electrome of a Parasitic Plant in a Putative State of Attention Increases the Energy of Low Band Frequency Waves: A Comparative Study with Neural Systems. Plants 2023, 12, 2005. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12102005. © 2023 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0.