Phytosemiotics is a branch of

biosemiotics Biosemiotics (from the Greek βίος ''bios'', "life" and σημειωτικός ''sēmeiōtikos'', "observant of signs") is a field of semiotics and biology that studies the prelinguistic meaning-making, biological interpretation processes, p ...

that studies the

sign process 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 ...

es 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 inqui ...

, 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 Wupper ...

in 1981.

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'' 202: 673–688. * 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. * Kull, Kalevi 2000
An introduction to phytosemiotics: Semiotic botany and vegetative sign systems.
'' Sign Systems Studies'' 28: 326–350. * Kull, Kalevi 2009
Vegetative, animal, and cultural semiosis: The semiotic threshold zones
''Cognitive Semiotics'' 4: 8–27. Semiotics Botany Plant cognition {{botany-stub

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