Mimosa pudica , known as touch-me-not plants, quickly move their leaves in response to touch and new research reveals how they do it. In a study led by Masatsugu Toyota at Saitama University in ...

Rapid leaf movements mediated by Ca2+ signal coupled with action and variation potentials protect the sensitive plant Mimosa pudica from insect attacks.

Long journal capturing the shameplant (also knowns as Mimosa pudica, shy plant, touch-me-not, etc.) in a condensed time lapse ...

Mimosa Pudica (Sensitive plant/Touch Me Not Plant) can offer such protection, going by the report of studies that it curbs poisoning by cobra bite.

Researchers from the University of Western Australia found that Mimosa pudica plants can remember just as well as some animals. The plants displayed survival tactics that require learned behavior ...

Ten plants of Mimosa pudica L. were exposed to artificial rain following anesthesia of the leaves of half of the plants. Anesthetized plants, which no longer displayed the seismonastic response of ...

Mimosa pudica quickly closes its leaves when touched — presumably as a defense mechanism. Desfontaines was interested in the plants’ response to the continuous vibrations of the ride.

Colchicine at 1 × 10-3 mol dm-3 does not affect the seismonastic movement of Mimosa pudica leaves but disrupts microtubules in motor cells. Vinblastine at 5 × 10-5 mol dm-3 does not affect this ...