Phytosemiotics is a branch of
biosemiotics that studies the
sign processes in plants, or more broadly, the vegetative
semiosis
Semiosis (, ), or sign process, is any form of activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, including the production of meaning. A sign is anything that communicates a meaning, that is not the sign itself, to the interpreter of the sign ...
. Vegetative semiosis is a type of sign processes that occurs at cellular and tissue level, including cellular recognition,
plant perception, plant
signal transduction
Signal transduction is the process by which a chemical or physical signal is transmitted through a cell as a series of molecular events, most commonly protein phosphorylation catalyzed by protein kinases, which ultimately results in a cellula ...
, intercellular
communication
Communication (from la, communicare, meaning "to share" or "to be in relation with") is usually defined as the transmission of information. The term may also refer to the message communicated through such transmissions or the field of inquir ...
, immunological processes, etc.
The term 'phytosemiotics' was introduced by
Martin Krampen
Martin Krampen (March 9, 1928 in Siegen – June 18, 2015 in Ulm) was a leading German semiotician, semiotics Professor in Göttingen.
Biography
The son of a Protestant pastor, Krampen was born on March 9, 1928 in Siegen and was raised in Wuppert ...
in 1981.
See also
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Plant perception (physiology)
Plant perception is the ability of plants to sense and respond to the environment by adjusting their morphology and physiology. Botanical research has revealed that plants are capable of reacting to a broad range of stimuli, including chemicals ...
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Plant communication
Plants can be exposed to many stress factors such as disease, temperature changes, herbivory, injury and more. Therefore, in order to respond or be ready for any kind of physiological state, they need to develop some sort of system for their surv ...
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Hormonal sentience
Hormonal sentience, first described by Robert A. Freitas Jr., describes the information processing rate in plants, which are mostly based on hormones instead of neurons like in all major animals (except sponges). Plants can to some degree comm ...
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Zoosemiotics
Zoosemiotics is the semiotic study of the use of signs among animals, more precisely the study of semiosis among animals, i.e. the study of how something comes to function as a sign to some animal. It is the study of animal forms of knowing.
Consi ...
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International Society for Biosemiotic Studies The International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS) is an academic society for the researchers in semiotic biology. The Society was established in 2005. Its official journal is Biosemiotics, published by Springer and launched in 2008.
The pu ...
References
*Affifi, Ramsey 2013. Learning plants: Semiotics between the parts and the whole. ''Biosemiotics'' 6: 547–559.
*Faucher, Kane 2014. Phytosemiotics revisited: Botanical behavior and sign transduction. ''
Semiotica
''Semiotica'' is an academic journal covering semiotics. It is the official journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies.
Publication
Since 2000, the journal publishes five issues per year. It is published in English and French.
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'' 202: 673–688.
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Krampen, Martin 1981. Phytosemiotics. ''Semiotica'' 36(3/4): 187–209.
*Krampen, Martin 1992. Phytosemiotics revisited. In:
Sebeok, Thomas A.; Umiker-Sebeok, Jean (eds.), ''Biosemiotics: The Semiotic Web 1991''. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 213–219.
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Kull, Kalevi
Kalevi Kull (born 12 August 1952, Tartu) is a biosemiotics professor at the University of Tartu, Estonia.
He graduated from the University of Tartu in 1975. His earlier work dealt with ethology and field ecology. He has studied the mechanisms ...
2000
An introduction to phytosemiotics: Semiotic botany and vegetative sign systems.''
Sign Systems Studies
''Sign Systems Studies'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal on semiotics edited at the Department of Semiotics of the University of Tartu and published by the University of Tartu Press. It is the oldest periodical in the field. It was initially ...
'' 28: 326–350.
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Kull, Kalevi
Kalevi Kull (born 12 August 1952, Tartu) is a biosemiotics professor at the University of Tartu, Estonia.
He graduated from the University of Tartu in 1975. His earlier work dealt with ethology and field ecology. He has studied the mechanisms ...
2009
Vegetative, animal, and cultural semiosis: The semiotic threshold zones ''Cognitive Semiotics'' 4: 8–27.
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