Plant neurobiology had hypothesized a sort of plant neuronal network but this theory has not found any confirmation.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himVegetarians and vegans have been asked at least once in their life: why, carrots do not suffer? Now science finally offers one response clear and unambiguous to this question, and the answer is that no, carrots do not suffer.
Although plants have a sort of "intelligence" that allows them to "communicate" with other plants and insects, no plant has synapses or structures equivalent to the animal nervous system, and therefore they cannot feel pain.
Synapses, neurons and neuronal networks are highly specialized structures that allow for rapid and flexible responses to external signals. These are structures that have evolved in animals, but not in plants.
This is what emerges from a study just published in the Journal of Plant Physiology that examined the literature on plant neurobiology. This science has hypothesized several theories over the past fifteen years to prove the existence of an intelligence and a consciousness in plants.
For example, it has been hypothesized that the role of the phloem flowing inside plants is to transmit electrical signals over long distances such as our nervous system. It is not so. Plants do have complex cellular signaling mechanisms but no structures that resemble our synapses. And the phloem, which undoubtedly conducts electrical signals, does so in a process that cannot be compared to the functioning of animal neuronal networks.
The same is true for some molecules that, in animals, act as neurotransmitters. Despite the presence of glutamate and GABA in plants, there are no data showing that they act as neurotransmitters.
The authors of the study concluded that "plant synapses" are a product of the imagination of plant neurobiologists and the tendency - typical of humans - to humanize "anything."
Plants therefore do not have an intelligence as we understand it, characterized by consciousness and thought and, consequently, carrots do not suffer.
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Reference source: Journal of Plant Physiology
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