Ep. 179 The Silence of the Plants

Petri Dish

Sure, plants can sometimes smell good and they do cool stuff like make carbs for us to eat and oxygen for us to breathe. But they sort of look like they're just passively sitting there, right? Just chilling. If only we could hear just a slightly broader range of frequencies, we would hear a whole new world of plants -- one where they are complaining about being thirsty! Find out about the screaming clicks of dying plants, this week on Petri Dish!

References:

• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00890-9
• https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(23)00262-3.pdf
• https://agrivita.ub.ac.id/index.php/agrivita/article/view/2613
• https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ele.13331
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6899487/