Phytosemiotics Explained

Phytosemiotics is a branch of biosemiotics that studies the sign processes in plants, or more broadly, the vegetative semiosis. Vegetative semiosis is a type of sign processes that occurs at cellular and tissue level, including cellular recognition, plant perception, plant signal transduction, intercellular communication, immunological processes, etc.

The term 'phytosemiotics' was introduced by Martin Krampen in 1981.

See also

• Plant perception (physiology)
• Plant communication
• Hormonal sentience
• Zoosemiotics
• International Society for Biosemiotic Studies

References

• Affifi, Ramsey 2013. Learning plants: Semiotics between the parts and the whole. Biosemiotics 6: 547–559.
• Deely, John 1982. On the notion of phytosemiotics. In: Deely, J. and Evans, J. (eds.), Semiotics 1982. Lanham: University Press of America, 541–554.
• 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.
• Kull, Kalevi 2023. Necessary conditions for semiosis: A study of vegetative subjectivity, or phytosemiotics. In: Coca, Juan R.; Rodríguez, Claudio J. (eds.), Approaches to Biosemiotics. Valladolid: Ediciones Universidad Valladolid, 59–74.
• Witzany, Günther 2006. Plant communication from biosemiotic perspective. Plant Signaling & Behavior 1(4): 169–178.