Ricerc@Sapienza

To sense, respond and adapt to the constantly changing environmental conditions, plants have developed sophisticated signaling mechanisms. In this study, plant signaling under heterogeneous salt conditions was investigated. A split root system was established in which one half of the root apparatus (HR1) was treated with salt. The impact of the salt on the electrical signals as the initial response of the plant to exterior stimulus was measured in the other half of the root system (HR2) with a Multi Electrode Array (MEA) system.

Human tissues own conductive properties, and the electrical activity produced by human organs can propagate throughout the body due to neuro transmitters and electrolytes. Therefore, it might be reasonable to hypothesize correlations and similarities between electrical activities among different parts of the body.