Thigmonasty

Mimosa pudica in normal and touched state.

In biology, thigmonasty or seismonasty is the nastic (non-directional) response of a plant or fungus to touch or vibration.[1][2] Conspicuous examples of thigmonasty include many species in the leguminous subfamily Mimosoideae, active carnivorous plants such as Dionaea and a wide range of pollination mechanisms.[3]

  1. ^ Walter Stiles (1994). Principles of Plant Physiology. Discovery Publishing House. pp. 520–. ISBN 978-81-7141-247-1.
  2. ^ Norman M. Wereley; Janet M. Sater, eds. (2012). Plants and Mechanical Motion: A Synthetic Approach to Nastic Materials and Structures. DEStech Publications, Inc. ISBN 978-1-60595-043-3.
  3. ^ Dov Koller; Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh (15 January 2011). The Restless Plant. Harvard University Press. pp. 18–. ISBN 978-0-674-05943-6.