Open AccessNumerical investigation of action potential transmission in plants
Author(s) -
Mariusz Pietruszka,
K. Pazurkiewicz-Kocot
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
acta societatis botanicorum poloniae
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 2083-9480
pISSN - 0001-6977
DOI - 10.5586/asbp.2000.023
Subject(s) - action (physics) , hodgkin–huxley model , context (archaeology) , impulse (physics) , ordinary differential equation , point (geometry) , computer science , differential equation , mathematics , physics , classical mechanics , mathematical analysis , neuroscience , biology , geometry , quantum mechanics , paleontology
In context of a fairly concise review of recent literature and well established experimental results we reconsider the problem of action potential propagating steadily down the plant cell(s). Having adopted slightly modified Hodgkin-Huxley set of differential equations for the action potential we carried out the numerical investigation of these equations in the course of time. We argue that the Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz model for the nerve impulse can be used to describe the phenomena which take place in plants - this point of view seems to be plausible since the mechanisms involving active ionic transport across membranes from the mathematical point of view are similar. Besides, we compare in a qualitative way our theoretical outcomes with typical experimental results for the action potentials which arise as the reaction of plants to electrical, mechanical and light stimuli. Moreover, we point out the relevance of the sequence of events during the pulse with the appropriate ionic fluxes