the researchers recorded both healthy and stressed tomato and tobacco plants using microphones. They conducted experiments in a soundproof chamber and later in a greenhouse with background noise. The plants were stressed in two ways, by withholding water for several days and by cutting their stems. The team then trained a machine learning algorithm to distinguish between healthy plants, dehydrated plants, and cut plants.
audio is uploaded in the article
Source : https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-plants-scream-we-just-couldnt-hear-them-until-now/
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They discovered this in the 70’s. Lyall Watson’s Supernature documented plant reactions, even when cutting a leaf taken from the plant. It may not have been the most rigorous science, I don’t know. But it did encourage thinking outside the box for ways to attempt to learn about the natural world.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Wow that’s my favorite song
I bet that wet brick sounds in a different way than a dry one.
ur a wet brick lol
I recall in college about 14 years ago we spoke about the electric impulses in plants and how they change in reaction to stress
I was thinking about pop science headlines in the nineties, maybe even earlier.
They pop and snap, calling that “screaming” is a bit sensationalist.
This is the kind of headline that hearkens the anti-vegetarians to claim nonsense arguments. “Plants scream when you cut them, so that means you’re a hypocrite because you’re hurting plants. Just look at this paper that says so!”
I thought they found this over a decade ago?
Now it’s reproducible bullshit.
Now I want to hook up a mic to my succulents and run a local ML model on a raspberry pi to water it.
Short story by Roald Dahl, The Sound Machine: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1949/09/17/the-sound-machine
any day that includes roald dahl is a good day. thank you!
I’ve known about the Screaming Trees for decades.
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?
Finally, a reason to consider vegetarianism
