Source of sustained voltage difference between the xylem of a potted ficus benjamina tree and its soil

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Love, Christopher J ^a   Zhang, Shuguang ^a   Mershin, Andreas ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; FICUS; FICUS BENJAMINA; HOMEOSTASIS; ILLUMINATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PH; SOIL; STANDARDIZATION; TREE; XYLEM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

FICUS BENJAMINA;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FICUS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; SOIL; TREES; XYLEM;

EID: 51849117315     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002963     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Calnan C (2006) Plugged in: Startup hopes to tap electricity from trees. Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology.
2. Wright JP, Fisher DB (1981) Measurement of Sieve Tube Membrane Potential. Plant Physiology 67: 845-848.
3. Wegner LH, Zimmerman U (1998) Simultaneous recording of xylem pressure and trans-root potential in roots of intact glycophytes using a novel xylem pressure probe technique. Plant, Cell and Environment 21: 849-865.
4. Ksenzhek O, Petrova S, Kolodyazhny M (2004) Electrical Properties of Plant Tissues: Resistance of a Maize Leaf. Bulgarian Journal of Plant Physiology 30: 61-67.
5. Gilbert D, Mouel JLL, Lambs L, Nicollin F, Perrier F (2006) Sap Flow and Daily Electrical Potential Variations in a Tree Trunk. Plant Science 171: 572-584.
6. Gensler W, Yan T (1988) Investigation of the Causative Reactant of the Apoplast Electropotentials of Plants. Journal of the Electrochemical Society: Electrochemical Science and Technology 135: 2991-2995.
7. Labady AJ, Thomas DJ, Shvetsova T, Volkov AG (2002) Plant bioelectrochemistry: effects of CCCP on electrical signaling in soybean. Bioelectrochemistry 57: 47-53.
8. Nobel PS (2005) Physicochemical and Environmental Plant Physiology 3rd ed. Elsevier Acad. Press. pp 106-123.
9. Gregori G, Lanzerotti L (1986) Telluric Currents: The Natural Environment and Interactions with Man-made Systems. The Earth's Electrical Enviroment. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. pp 232-258.
10. Fensom DS (1963) The bioelectric potentials of plants and their functional significance: v. some daily and seasonal changes in the electrical potential and resistance of living trees. Canadian Journal of Botany 41: 831-851.
11. Morat P, Mouel JLL, Granier A (1994) Electrical potential on a tree. A measurement of sap flow? CR Acad Sci Paris, Science de la vie 317: 98-101.
12. Koppan A, Fenyvesi A, Szarka L, Wesztergom V (2002) Measurement of electric potential difference on trees. Acta Biologica Szegediensis 46: 37-38.
13. Koppan A, Szarka L, Wesztergom V (2000) Annual fluctuation in amplitudes of daily variations of electrical signals measured in the trunk of a standing tree. CR Acad Sci Paris, Science de la vie Life Sciences 323: 559-563.
14. Kleiber M (1947) Body size and metabolic rate. Physiol Rev 27: 511-541.
15. Niklas KJ, Enquist BJ (2001 ) Invariant scaling relationships for interspecific plant biomass production rates and body size. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol 98 No 5: 2922-2927.
16. Reich PB, Tjoelker MG, Machado J-L, Oleksyn J (2006), Universal scaling of respiratory metabolism, size and nitrogen in plants. Nature 439: 457-561.
17. Yang J, Lu F, Kostiuk LW, Kwok DY (2003) Electrokinetic microchannel battery by means of electrokinetic and microfluidic phenomena, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 13: 963-970.
18. Grodzinsky AJ (2003) Fields, Forces and Flows in Biological Systems. http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biological-Engineering/20-430JFall-2004/ LectureNotes/index.htm.