Phytosemiotics is a branch of biosemiotics

Biosemiotics

Biosemiotics is a growing field that studies the production, action and interpretation of signs in the biological realm...

 that studies the sign processes in plants, or more broadly, the vegetative semiosis

Semiosis

Semiosis is any form of activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, including the production of meaning. Briefly – semiosis is sign process...

. Vegetative semiosis is a type of sign processes that occurs at cellular and tissue level, including cellular recognition, plant perception

Plant perception (physiology)

In the study of plant physiology plant perception is a term used to describe mechanisms by which plants recognize changes in the environment. Examples of stimuli which plants perceive and can react to include chemicals, gravity, light, moisture, infections, temperature, oxygen and carbon dioxide...

, plant signal transduction

Signal transduction

Signal transduction occurs when an extracellular signaling molecule activates a cell surface receptor. In turn, this receptor alters intracellular molecules creating a response...

, intercellular communication, immunological processes, etc.

The term 'phytosemiotics' has been introduced by Martin Krampen

Martin Krampen

Martin Krampen is a leading German semiotician, semiotics Professor in Göttingen. He has worked in the field of visual semiotics and environmental perception, also as a professional artist, but he became well-known as the one who established the field of phytosemiotics , later becoming an...

 in 1981.

See also

• Plant perception (physiology)
  Plant perception (physiology)
  In the study of plant physiology plant perception is a term used to describe mechanisms by which plants recognize changes in the environment. Examples of stimuli which plants perceive and can react to include chemicals, gravity, light, moisture, infections, temperature, oxygen and carbon dioxide...
  
  
• Hormonal sentience
  Hormonal sentience
  Hormonal sentience, first described by Robert A. Freitas Jr., describes the information processing rate in plants, which are mostly based on hormones instead of neurons like in all major animals...
  
  
• Zoosemiotics
• International Society for Biosemiotic Studies
  International Society for Biosemiotic Studies
  The International Society for Biosemiotic Studies is an academic society for the researchers in semiotic biology. The Society was established in 2005...