Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, United States.
Elife. 2020 Sep 10;9:e61689. doi: 10.7554/eLife.61689.
In 2016 Gagliano et al. reported evidence for associative learning in plants (Gagliano et al., 2016). A subsequent attempt to replicate this finding by the present author was not successful (Markel, 2020). Gagliano et al. attribute this lack of replication to differences in the experimental set-ups used in the original work and the replication attempt (Gagliano et al., 2020). Here, based on a comparison of the two set-ups, I argue that these differences are unable to explain the lack of replication in Markel, 2020.
2016 年,Gagliano 等人报告了植物联想学习的证据(Gagliano 等人,2016)。随后,作者本人试图重复这一发现,但并未成功(Markel,2020)。Gagliano 等人将这种无法复制的现象归因于原始工作和复制尝试中实验设置的差异(Gagliano 等人,2020)。在这里,我通过对这两个设置的比较,认为这些差异并不能解释 Markel,2020 中无法复制的原因。