Douglas fir, birch and cedar. We're sitting on the exposed root system, which is like -- it is like a mat. It's almost as if these plants -- it's almost as if they know where our pipes are. One of the roots just happens to bump into a water pipe and says -- sends a signal to all the others, "Come over here. It's like a bank? I mean, I see the dirt. ROBERT: And Monica wondered in the plant's case MONICA GAGLIANO: If there was only the fan, would the plant ROBERT: Anticipate the light and lean toward it? My reaction was, "Oh ****!" ROBERT: So there is some water outside of the pipe. ROBERT: And then she waited a few more days and came back. Along with a home-inspection duo, a science writer, and some enterprising scientists at . This peculiar plant has a -- has a surprising little skill. And we can move it up, and we can drop it. JAD: So they just went right for the MP3 fake water, not even the actual water? So you -- if you would take away the fish, the trees would be, like, blitzed. They don't do well in warm temperatures and their needles turn all sickly yellow. ROBERT: These sensitive hairs he argues, would probably be able to feel that tiny difference. I go out and I thought there's no one here on Sunday afternoon. SUZANNE SIMARD: We had a Geiger counter out there. JAD: So you couldn't replicate what she saw. Plants are amazing, and this world is amazing and that living creatures have this ability for reasons we don't understand, can't comprehend yet." Then we actually had to run four months of trials to make sure that, you know, that what we were seeing was not one pea doing it or two peas, but it was actually a majority. So maybe the root hairs, which are always found right at the growing tips of plant roots, maybe plant roots are like little ears. Well, so what's the end of the story? If you look at these particles under the microscope, you can see the little tunnels. And she wondered whether that was true. Radiolab is supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, enhancing public understanding of science and technology in the modern world. Maybe each root is -- is like a little ear for the plant. This is the fungus. I'll put it down in my fungi. Anyone who's ever had a plant in a window knows that. ROY HALLING: Like, I say, it's early in the season. Oh, so this is, like, crucial. Like a human would. And it's more expensive. I think you can be open-minded but still objective. No matter how amazing I think that the results are, for some reason people just don't think plants are interesting. Maybe just a tenth the width of your eyelash. Or even learn? I don't know if that was the case for your plants. MONICA GAGLIANO: A plant that is quite far away from the actual pipe. Super interesting how alive our plants really are! MONICA GAGLIANO: Like a defensive mechanism. To remember? JENNIFER FRAZER: An anti-predator reaction? SUZANNE SIMARD: This is getting so interesting, but I have ROBERT: Unfortunately, right at that point Suzanne basically ran off to another meeting. ROBERT: She thinks that they somehow remembered all those drops and it never hurt, so they didn't fold up any more. Isn't that what you do? SUZANNE SIMARD: So we know that Douglas fir will take -- a dying Douglas fir will send carbon to a neighboring Ponderosa pine. ROBERT: They would salivate and then eat the meat. Now, it turns out that they're networked, and together they're capable of doing things, of behaviors, forestrial behaviors, that are deeply new. And so we, you know, we've identified these as kind of like hubs in the network. ROBERT: So here's what she did. ANNIE: Yeah. You just used a very interesting word. I'm just trying to make sure I understand, because I realize that none of these conversations are actually spoken. ], [ALVIN UBELL: And Alvin Ubell. It should have some. Eventually over a period of time, it'll crack the pipe like a nutcracker. Because what she does next is three days later, she takes these plants back into the lab. ALVIN UBELL: And I've been in the construction industry ever since I'm about 16 years old. And when I came on the scene in 19 -- the 1980s as a forester, we were into industrial, large-scale clear-cutting in western Canada. Fan, light, lean. Dedicated to enhancing the lives of the citizens in the communities it serves by responding to their need to be engaged, educated, entertained & enlightened. So we are going to meet a beautiful little plant called a mimosa pudica, which is a perfectly symmetrical plant with leaves on either side of a central stem. What is it? ROBERT: So maybe could you just describe it just briefly just what you did? There's not a leak in the glass. Again, if you imagine that the pot, my experimental pot. The next one goes, "Uh-oh." He's the only springtail with a trench coat and a fedora. A little while back, I had a rather boisterous conversation with these two guys. I mean, I think there's something to that. Because I have an appointment. And the plant still went to the place where the pipe was not even in the dirt? It was like, "Oh, I might disturb my plants!" And the pea plants are left alone to sit in this quiet, dark room feeling the breeze. Enough of that! ROBERT: Apparently, bears park themselves in places and grab fish out of the water, and then, you know, take a bite and then throw the carcass down on the ground. I was like, "Oh, my God! And then Monica would Just about, you know, seven or eight inches. Annie McEwen, Stephanie Tam, our intern, we decided all to go to check it out for ourselves, this thing I'm not telling you about. This way there is often more questions than answers, but that's part of the fun as well. JENNIFER FRAZER: Or it could be like, "Okay, I'm not doing so well, so I'm gonna hide this down here in my ceiling.". If there was only the fan, would the plant After three days of this training regime, it is now time to test the plants with just the fan, no light. Like, the tree was, like, already doing that stuff by itself, but it's the fungus that's doing that stuff? Ring, meat, eat. Me first. And all of a sudden, one of them says, "Oh, oh, oh, oh! Hi. And so we are under the impression or I would say the conviction that the brain is the center of the universe, and -- and if you have a brain and a nervous system you are good and you can do amazing stuff. It's okay. From just bears throwing fish on the ground? Fan first, light after. It's condensation. This is the plant and pipe mystery. ROBERT: So we strapped in our mimosa plant. Do you really need a brain to sense the world around you? JENNIFER FRAZER: Yes, in a lot of cases it is the fungus. ROBERT: They remembered what had happened three days before, that dropping didn't hurt, that they didn't have to fold up. Okay. Take it. They run out of energy. ROBERT: Ring, meat, eat. 0:00. And she goes on to argue that had we been a little bit more steady and a little bit more consistent, the plants would have learned and would have remembered the lesson. So it's predicting something to arrive. Also thanks to Christy Melville and to Emerald O'Brien and to Andres O'Hara and to Summer Rayne. Turns the fan on, turns the light on, and the plant turns and leans that way. They may have this intelligence, maybe we're just not smart enough yet to figure it out. So we're really -- like this is -- we're really at the very beginning of this. Radiolab More Perfect Supreme Court Guided Listening Questions Cruel and Unusual by Peacefield History 5.0 (8) $1.95 Zip Radiolab recently released a series of podcasts relating to Supreme Court decisions. So they followed the sound of the barking and it leads them to an outhouse. Like, the plant is hunting? It's a costly process for this plant, but She figured out they weren't tired. Along with a home-inspection duo, a science writer, and some enterprising scientists at Princeton University, we dig into the work of evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano, who turns our brain-centered worldview on its head through a series of clever . She made sure that the dirt didn't get wet, because she'd actually fastened the water pipe to the outside of the pot. It was like, Oh, I might disturb my plants!" We were so inconsistent, so clumsy, that the plants were smart to keep playing it safe and closing themselves up. Ring, meat, eat. Why waste hot water? 36:59. But it was originally done with -- with a dog. And then Monica would ROBERT: Just about, you know, seven or eight inches. Well, you can see the white stuff is the fungus. So I think what she would argue is that we kind of proved her point. Monica thought about that and designed a different experiment. I guess you could call it a mimosa plant drop box. And she goes on to argue that had we been a little bit more steady and a little bit more consistent, the plants would have learned and would have remembered the lesson. We are the principals of Accurate Building Inspectors of Brooklyn, New York. The bell, the meat and the salivation. ROBERT: One of the spookiest examples of this Suzanne mentioned, is an experiment that she and her team did where they discovered that if a forest is warming up, which is happening all over the world, temperatures are rising, you have trees in this forest that are hurting. Instead of eating the fungus, it turns out the fungus ate them. She thinks that they somehow remembered all those drops and it never hurt, so they didn't fold up any more. She's not gonna use hot water because you don't want to cook your plants, you know? JENNIFER FRAZER: Then he would bring them the meat and he would ring a bell. [laughs]. Why waste hot water? Then she takes the little light and the little fan and moves them to the other side of the plant. Let him talk. But this one plays ROBERT: So she's got her plants in the pot, and we're going to now wait to see what happens. ROBERT: A little while back, I had a rather boisterous conversation with these two guys. ROBERT: And that's just the beginning. I mean the fungus is JENNIFER FRAZER: No, no, no. It's a very biased view that humans have in particular towards others. JENNIFER FRAZER: Into which she put these sensitive plants. The magnolia tree outside of our house got into the sewer pipes, reached its tentacles into our house and busted the sewage pipe. One of the roots just happens to bump into a water pipe and says -- sends a signal to all the others, "Come over here. Or at the time actually, she was a very little girl who loved the outdoors. ], [JENNIFER FRAZER: Our fact-checkers are Eva Dasher and Michelle Harris. JENNIFER FRAZER: Apparently she built some sort of apparatus. And then what happens? So we've done experiments, and other people in different labs around the world, they've been able to figure out that if a tree's injured ROBERT: It'll cry out in a kind of chemical way. It's a family business. ROBERT: So the plants are now, you know, buckled in, minding their own business. Apparently, she built some sort of apparatus. JAD: This -- this actually happened to me. LARRY UBELL: Me first. [ENRIQUE: This is Enrique Romero from the bordertown of Laredo, Texas. [laughs]. You got the plant to associate the fan with food. You give me -- like, I want wind, birds, chipmunks Like, I'm not, like, your sound puppet here. They're sort of flea-sized and they spend lots of time munching leaves on the forest floor. Of the tree's sugar goes down to the mushroom team? Right? It was done by radiolab, called "smarty plants". Not really. It's just getting started. That's what she says. Jad and Robert, they are spli Well, it depends on who you ask. LARRY UBELL: You got somewhere to go? There's not a leak in the glass. JENNIFER FRAZER: The whole thing immediately closes up and makes it look like, "Oh, there's no plant here. ], Maria Matasar-Padilla is our Managing Director. Well, some of them can first of all, and big deal. And it's more expensive. They just don't like to hear words like "mind" or "hear" or "see" or "taste" for a plant, because it's too animal and too human. They will send out a "Oh, no! ROBERT: She says what will happen under the ground is that the fungal tubes will stretch up toward the tree roots, and then they'll tell the tree SUZANNE SIMARD: With their chemical language. In this case, a little blue LED light. ROY HALLING: Well, you can see the white stuff is the fungus. And now, if you fast-forward roughly 30 years, she then makes a discovery that I find kind of amazing. And so we are under the impression or I would say the conviction that the brain is the center of the universe, and -- and if you have a brain and a nervous system you are good and you can do amazing stuff. Yeah, it might run out of fuel. And I do that in my brain. You know, they talk about how honeybee colonies are sort of superorganisms, because each individual bee is sort of acting like it's a cell in a larger body. let's do it! I do find it magical. I'm a research associate professor at the University of Sydney. Yeah, and hopefully not be liquefied by the fungus beneath us. JAD: If a plant doesn't have a brain what is choosing where to go? ROBERT: This is very like if you had a little helmet with a light on it. Jad and Robert, theyare split on this one. You know, they talk about how honeybee colonies are sort of superorganisms, because each individual bee is sort of acting like it's a cell in a larger body. JENNIFER FRAZER: Oh, yeah. Then of course because it's the BBC, they take a picture of it. ROBERT: Oh, so it says to the newer, the healthier trees, "Here's my food. Jennifer told Latif and I about another role that these fungi play. I mean, it's just -- it's reacting to things and there's a series of mechanical behaviors inside the plant that are just bending it in the direction. We dropped. MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah, tested it in my lab. So no plants were actually hurt in this experiment. LINCOLN TAIZ: I think you can be open-minded but still objective. ROBERT: Oh! Do you really need a brain to sense the world around you? This -- this actually happened to me. But what I do know is that the fact that the plant doesn't have a brain doesn't -- doesn't a priori say that the plants can't do something. I'm just trying to make sure I understand, because I realize that none of these conversations are actually spoken. We showed one of these plants to him and to a couple of his colleagues, Sharon De La Cruz ROBERT: Because we wanted them to help us recreate Monica's next experiment. So after the first few, the plants already realized that that was not necessary. They can go north, south, east, west, whatever. Or maybe it's the fungus under the ground is kind of like a broker and decides who gets what. Monica says what she does do is move around the world with a general feeling of What if? And so of course, that was only the beginning. On our knees with our noses in the ground, and we can't see anything. So they just went right for the MP3 fake water, not even the actual water? They remembered what had happened three days before, that dropping didn't hurt, that they didn't have to fold up. It's okay, puppy. But if you dig a little deeper, there's a hidden world beneath your feet as busy and complicated as a city at rush hour. ROBERT: I think that's fair. In this conversation. I do want to go back, though, to -- for something like learning, like, I don't understand -- learning, as far as I understand it, is something that involves memory and storage. ROBERT: So light is -- if you shine light on a plant you're, like, feeding it? OUR PODCASTSSUPPORT US Smarty Plants LISTEN Download February 13, 2018 ( Robert Krulwich SUZANNE SIMARD: And so in this particular summer when the event with Jigs happened ROBERT: What kind of dog is Jigs, by the way? ], [JENNIFER FRAZER: Bethel Habte, Tracie Hunte, Matt Kielty ], [ALVIN UBELL: Matt Kielly. And then JENNIFER FRAZER: They secrete acid. ROBERT: So that voice belongs to Aatish Bhatia, who is with Princeton University's Council on Science and Technology. ANNIE: But I wonder if her using these metaphors ANNIE: is perhaps a very creative way of looking at -- looking at a plant, and therefore leads her to make -- make up these experiments that those who wouldn't think the way she would would ever make up. And a little wind. "I'm under attack!". She took some plants, put them in a pot that restricted the roots so they could only go in one of just two directions, toward the water pipe or away from the water pipe. And so I don't have a problem with that. She actually trained this story in a rather elaborate experimental setup to move away from the light and toward a light breeze against all of its instincts. We're just learning about them now, and they're so interesting. No. Radiolab. In this case, a little blue LED light. Sep 28, 2020 - Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. I mean, I see the dirt. They're switched on. And then when times are hard, that fungi will give me my sugar back and I can start growing again. And not too far away from this tree, underground, there is a water pipe. Like, they don't have ears or a brain or anything like, they couldn't hear like we hear. Transcript. ANNIE MCEWEN: What was your reaction when you saw this happen? ROBERT: Now that's a very, you know, animals do this experiment, but it got Monica thinking. Are going to make me rethink my stance on plants. More information about Sloan at www.sloan.org]. It's 10 o'clock and I have to go. All right, that's it, I think. ROBERT: She took that notion out of the garden into her laboratory. let's do it! Then Monica hoists the plant back up again and drops it again. I wonder if that was maybe a bit too much. ROBERT: And it's in that little space between them that they make the exchange. They somehow have a dye, and don't ask me how they know this or how they figured it out, but they have a little stain that they can put on the springtails to tell if they're alive or dead. They learned something. ROBERT: I wanted to talk to them because, as building inspectors they -- there's something they see over and over and over. Artificial Plants Aquarium Substrate Backgrounds Gravel, Sand & Stones Live Plants Ornaments Plant Food & Fertilizers Heating & Lighting Heaters Hoods & Glass Canopies Heating & Lighting Accessories Lights Live Fish Goldfish, Betta & More Starter Kits bird Bird Shops Food & Treats Pet Bird Food Treats When I was a little kid, I would be in the forest and I'd just eat the forest floor. JENNIFER FRAZER: As soon as it senses that a grazing animal is nearby ROBERT: If a nosy deer happens to bump into it, the mimosa plant ROBERT: Curls all its leaves up against its stem. ROBERT: So for three days, three times a day, she would shine these little blue lights on the plants. Yeah. ROBERT: What's its job? It's time -- time for us to go and lie down on the soft forest floor. So they can't move. MONICA GAGLIANO: Exactly. LARRY UBELL: Good. And you don't see it anywhere. I'm a research associate professor at the University of Sydney. And the salivation equivalent was the tilt of the plant? That's amazing and fantastic. I mean, Jigs was part of the family. Robert, I have -- you know what? Eventually over a period of time, it'll crack the pipe like a nutcracker. JENNIFER FRAZER: But no, they're all linked to each other! I go out and I thought there's no one here on Sunday afternoon. And if you don't have one, by default you can't do much in general. Birds, please. I'm 84. Robert, I have -- you know what? And therefore she might, in the end, see something that no one else would see. But it didn't happen. [laughs] When I write a blog post, my posts that get the least traffic guaranteed are the plant posts. JENNIFER FRAZER: They're called springtails, because a lot of them have a little organ on the back that they actually can kind of like deploy and suddenly -- boing! I don't know if that was the case for your plants. How does it know which way to turn and grow its roots so that it can find the water? They just don't like to hear words like "mind" or "hear" or "see" or "taste" for a plant, because it's too animal and too human. JENNIFER FRAZER: I do find it magical. I thought okay, so this is just stupid. I was like, "Oh, my God! And his idea was to see if he could condition these dogs to associate that food would be coming from the sound of a bell. Ring, meat, eat. Pics! No. Oh, so it says to the newer, the healthier trees, "Here's my food. SUZANNE SIMARD: Into the roots, and then into the microbial community, which includes the mushroom team, yeah. SUZANNE SIMARD: Not a basset hound, but he was a beagle. He's looking up at us quite scared and very unhappy that he was covered in SUZANNE SIMARD: And toilet paper. This happens to a lot of people. So the plants are now, you know, buckled in, minding their own business. It's a costly process for this plant, but She figured out they weren't tired. And she was willing to entertain the possibility that plants can do something like hear. The idea was to drop them again just to see, like, the difference between the first time you learn something and the next time. ROBERT: So what they're saying is even if she's totally sealed the pipe so there's no leak at all, the difference in temperature will create some condensation on the outside. And I need a bird, a lot of birds, actually. ROBERT: Like, would they figure it out faster this time? Fan, light, lean. Her use of metaphor. I mean, this is going places. Just read about plants having brains and doing things that we honestly do not expect them. Thud. ROBERT: Then she placed the fan right next to the light so that MONICA GAGLIANO: The light and the fan were always coming from the same direction. If you get too wrapped up in your poetic metaphor, you're very likely to be misled and to over-interpret the data. SUZANNE SIMARD: He was a, not a wiener dog. Remember I told you how trees make sugar? Because I have an appointment. And not too far away from this tree, underground, there is a water pipe. All right. No question there. JAD: Couldn't it just be an entirely different interpretation here? And it can reach these little packets of minerals and mine them. So they figured out who paid for the murder. They may have this intelligence, maybe we're just not smart enough yet to figure it out. I mean, I -- it's a kind of Romanticism, I think. This is the headphones? I think that's fair. Well, I created these horrible contraptions. JAD: So today we have a triptych of experiments about plants. The problem is is with plants. I mean, I -- it's a kind of Romanticism, I think. And ROBERT: Since he was so deep down in there. Or even learn? It seems like a no-brainer to me (pardon the unintentional pun) that they would have some very different ways of doing things similar to what animals do. I'll put it down in my fungi. There's -- on the science side, there's a real suspicion of anything that's anthropomorphizing a plant. But also SUZANNE SIMARD: The other important thing we figured out is that, as those trees are injured and dying, they'll dump their carbon into their neighbors. Just a boring set of twigs. Same as the Pavlov. So she takes the plants, she puts them into the parachute drop, she drops them. Absolutely not. He's not a huge fan of. JENNIFER FRAZER: This all has a history, of course. This assignment pairs with the RadioLab podcast; specifically the Smarty Plants episode. I spoke to her with our producer Latif Nasser, and she told us that this -- this network has developed a kind of -- a nice, punny sort of name. And she says this time they relaxed almost immediately. ], This is Jennifer Frazer, and I'm a freelance science writer and blogger of The Artful Amoeba at Scientific American. Peering down at the plants under the red glow of her headlamp. They learned something. Handheld? It's gone. It's a very interesting experiment, and I really want to see whether it's correct or not. It's a very interesting experiment, and I really want to see whether it's correct or not. ROBERT: She says the tree can only suck up what it needs through these -- mostly through the teeny tips of its roots, and that's not enough bandwidth. ROBERT: In the Richard Attenborough version, if you want to look on YouTube, he actually takes a nail RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH: This pin will give you an idea. And the pea plant leans toward them. Is it ROBERT: This is like metaphor is letting in the light as opposed to shutting down the blinds. Have you hugged your houseplant today? ROBERT: When people first began thinking about these things, and we're talking in the late 1800s, they had no idea what they were or what they did, but ultimately they figured out that these things were very ancient, because if you look at 400-million-year-old fossils of some of the very first plants JENNIFER FRAZER: You can see, even in the roots of these earliest land plants JENNIFER FRAZER: This is a really ancient association. It's a -- it's a three-pronged answer. The part where the water pipe was, the pipe was on the outside of the pot? It's a family business. But the Ubells have noticed that even if a tree is 10 or 20, 30 yards away from the water pipe, for some reason the tree roots creep with uncanny regularity straight toward the water pipe. Jad and Robert, they are split on this one. She determined that you can pick a little computer fan and blow it on a pea plant for pretty much ever and the pea plant would be utterly indifferent to the whole thing. 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