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 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!”
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Yoko Ono presents: plant jams #2
Wow that’s my favorite song
I bet that wet brick sounds in a different way than a dry one.
You mean dry bricks scream in agony!
So YOU mean the wet bricks scream with … pleasure?
ur a wet brick lol
Checkmate vegetarians. ;)
“in not vegetarian because I love animals. I’m vegetarian because I hate plants”
“The salad is screaming” has been a notion for decades.
Also, the Jains have entered the chat.
Finally, a reason to consider vegetarianism
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 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.
They, too, are aware of the state of the world.
I thought they found this over a decade ago?
I think the thing from a decade ago was about them emitting chemical messages through transpiration. Nova did a piece where transpiration and the fungal network in the soil were reconsidered as a whole communication system. I recall it was popularized using the same “scream” terminology in pop-sci rags.
Nah, it was the same thing, just 8 years ago I guess. This is an article from after I must have caught the paper: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-record-stressed-out-plants-emitting-ultrasonic-squeals-180973716/
Research has to be repeatable
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.
Don’t water your Raspberry Pi.
Yeah, you’re supposed to bake pie
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?
I’ve known about the Screaming Trees for decades.
Unfortunately, Mark passed away. One of the best. Ever. I saw him in Olympia a year or so before he died. Great show, but the man was nearly blind and looked pretty exhausted at the end. He hung out in the lobby signing stuff, must have talked to a hundred fans.
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!
Old news
Except then it was without machine learning.
Decades old.
