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Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world to science@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

Plants Really Do 'Scream'. We've Simply Never Heard Them Until Now

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Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world to science@lemmy.world · 7 months ago
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Plants Really Do 'Scream'. We've Simply Never Heard Them Until Now.
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It seems like Roald Dahl may have been onto something after all: if you hurt a plant, it screams.
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    By contrast, stressed plants are much noisier, emitting an average up to around 40 clicks per hour depending on the species. And plants deprived of water have a noticeable sound profile. They start clicking more before they show visible signs of dehydrating, escalating as the plant grows more parched, before subsiding as the plant withers away.

    someone smarter than me should get to inventing a device that listens to plant clicks and tells you when it needs water

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      That’s actually mentioned as one possible use case further down the article!

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        It could be. Although we don’t know how much those sounds indicate distress, and perhaps watering should happen much sooner.

        Imagine if aliens abduct you and give you food only when your stomach makes the kind of noise it makes after three days without eating anything, because “that’s all they can detect.”

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          Well hence they will work out when the plant (or human in your example) is really starving.

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            We’ve already established that. But that method will shorten the life of the plant (and human.)

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              I dunno, calorie restrictions has tended to lengthen lifespan in other organisms we’ve tried it on.

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                Sure, but not to the point in which it’s a constant stress.

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      They have that now:

      https://www.fastcompany.com/90983510/this-new-wave-of-startups-is-using-ai-to-decode-plants-secret-language

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      That idea is mentioned in the article, yes.

      Edit: apologies. The OP has already pointed this out.

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