Though plants do not have nerves, their response to ether could shed light on how anaesthetics work
Photograph: BlickWinkel/AlamyPhotograph: BlickWinkel/Alamyis touched its leaves fold up, and in 1878 the French physiologist Claude Bernard anaesthetised the plant using ether, preventing the leaf movements. Since then other plant movements have been anaesthetised – but how these drugs workThough plants do not have nerves, they can send rapid electrical signals remarkably similar to nerve impulses.
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