Perception and Communication Awareness in Plants.

IV. International Architectural Sciences and Applications Symposium, Girne, Kıbrıs (Kktc), 30 - 31 Mayıs 2024, ss.1879-1894, (Tam Metin Bildiri)

The plant kingdom is a very large living world that includes woody, herbaceous and similar eukaryotic organisms

(with one or more cell nuclei). The existence and survival of all living things in the world depends on plants. Because

plants provide the energy necessary for themselves by photosynthesis thanks to the chloroplasts in their cells

(autotroph). They also produce the energy necessary for all other living things and form the first link in the food chain.

Plants are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms. They have chloroplast organelle and chlorophyll pigment in this

organelle. They are photoautotrophs. In other words, they photosynthesize. They are the source of oxygen and food

for terrestrial life. The immobility of plants is directly related and consistent with the fact that their main ecological

function is the production of substrate for the community of organisms. However, immobility necessarily entails some

limitations. To meet these limitations, plants show evidence that they can implement adaptively beneficial behaviors

in a variety of ways. Three impressive evidences of such behavior in plants are their ability to remember, measure

time and communicate with chemical signals. Plants have developed various mechanisms in order to perceive the

changing environment, to adapt to the environment they live in and to continue their own development, to

communicate with symbiotic factors above and below ground. Plants, which have certain hormones, enzymes and

organs, have developed various receptors and microtubules related to these properties. Depending on the receptors

they have developed, they receive signals and information and transmit them to their receptors and establish

biocommunication with other plants, herbivores and reciprocal receptors. The organs of plants actively move and use

these movements to actively manage both their abiotic and biotic environment. By sending signals and reacting

accordingly, plants can recognize environmental responses, stresses and threats, and can predict future

environmental conditions based on clues from the information. At the same time, they can change their behavior based

on their own and their ancestors' experiences and exhibit a related memory. Plants use these responses not only for

survival but also for reproduction, seed development, continuation of their generations and distribution. In this study,

in the light of the information obtained because of scientific studies, the awareness levels of plants for sensory and

communication will be discussed. The ability of plants to remember, measure time and communicate with chemical

signals will be explained with examples.