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So you can get -- anybody can get one of these plants, and we did. Every time. Different kind of signal traveling through the soil? Share. She's working in the timber industry at the time. It's just getting started. So I don't have an issue with that. by Radiolab Follow. And we were all like, "Oh, my goodness! I was like, "Oh, my God! JAD: Yeah, absolutely. So the roots can go either left or to the right. And we dropped it once and twice. They look just like mining tunnels. Not really. ROBERT: No, I -- we kept switching rooms because we weren't sure whether you want it to be in the high light or weak light or some light or no light. They remembered what had happened three days before, that dropping didn't hurt, that they didn't have to fold up. Is that what -- is that what this? Or even learn? Again. So that's where these -- the scientists from Princeton come in: Peter, Sharon and Aatish. Verified account Protected Tweets @ Protected Tweets @ Jennifer told Latif and I about another role that these fungi play. Finally, one time he did not bring the meat, but he rang the bell. I don't really need it all right now. 2018. She says a timber company would move in and clear cut an entire patch of forest, and then plant some new trees. [laughs] You mean, like the World Wide Web? They shade each other. ROBERT: And we saw this in the Bronx. It's a -- it's a three-pronged answer. ROBERT: Oh, hunting for water. I know -- I know you -- I know you don't. The problem is is with plants. Remember that the roots of these plants can either go one direction towards the sound of water in a pipe, or the other direction to the sound of silence. LARRY UBELL: No, I don't because she may come up against it, people who think that intelligence is unique to humans. ROBERT: And she was willing to entertain the possibility that plants can do something like hear. Which by the way, is definitely not a plant. They're switched on. It's doing like a triple double axel backflip or something into the sky. ], [JENNIFER FRAZER: My name is Jennifer Frazer. View SmartyPlantsRadioLab Transcript (2).docx from CHEM 001A at Pasadena City College. JAD: The plants have to keep pulling their leaves up and they just get tired. So we went back to Monica. But what -- how would a plant hear something? And I remember it was Sunday, because I started screaming in my lab. ROBERT: A little while back, I had a rather boisterous conversation with these two guys. Because the only reason why the experiment turned out to be 28 days is because I ran out of time. And so I was really excited. JAD: It was curling each time when it ROBERT: Every time. And right in the middle of the yard is a tree. So there is some water outside of the pipe. I wanted to talk to them because, as building inspectors they -- there's something they see over and over and over. Inspector Tail is his name. ROBERT: Nothing happened at all. ROBERT: I'm not gonna tell you. ROBERT: But she's got a little red headlamp on. ALVIN UBELL: And I've been in the construction industry ever since I'm about 16 years old. So maybe could you just describe it just briefly just what you did? It was a simple little experiment. They run out of energy. ROBERT: 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. They can also send warning signals through the fungus. LARRY UBELL: It's not leaking. Transcript. ], Dylan Keefe is our Director of Sound Design. ROBERT: And for the meat substitute, she gave each plant little bit of food. Yeah. Yeah. Then she takes the little light and the little fan and moves them to the other side of the plant. JENNIFER FRAZER: Yeah. ROBERT: Monica says what she does do is move around the world with a general feeling of ROBERT: What if? Never mind. Because what she does next is three days later, she takes these plants back into the lab. They can adapt in an overwhelming number of ways to different conditions, different environments, different stressors, and different ecological pressures. Each one an ounce, an ounce, an ounce, an ounce, an ounce. ROBERT: Now, you might think that the plant sends out roots in every direction. So what does the tree do? And the pea plants are left alone to sit in this quiet, dark room feeling the breeze. So he brought them some meat. 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. You got somewhere to go? JENNIFER FRAZER: I am the blogger of The Artful Amoeba at Scientific American. I mean, what? MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah, plants really like light, you know? It's the equivalent of a human being jumping over the Eiffel Tower. And not too far away from this tree, underground, there is a water pipe. But let me just -- let me give it a try. MONICA GAGLIANO: Pretty much like the concept of Pavlov with his dog applied. And so I was really excited. Then she takes the little light and the little fan and moves them to the other side of the plant. Would they stay in the tree, or would they go down to the roots? You should definitely go out and check out her blog, The Artful Amoeba, especially to the posts, the forlorn ones about plants. LINCOLN TAIZ: It's a very interesting experiment, and I really want to see whether it's correct or not. Listen to this episode from Radiolab: Viper Members on Spotify. And then those little tubes will wrap themselves into place. And so we, you know, we've identified these as kind of like hubs in the network. It's like a savings account? On the outside of the pipe. And then she waited a few more days and came back. She thinks that they somehow remembered all those drops and it never hurt, so they didn't fold up any more. MONICA GAGLIANO: I don't know. But after five days, she found that 80% of the time, the plants went -- or maybe chose -- to head toward the dry pipe that has water in it. ROBERT: Packets of minerals. 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. Radiolab is supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, enhancing public understanding of science and technology in the modern world. ROBERT: Two very different options for our plant. Well, it depends on who you ask. So Pavlov started by getting some dogs and some meat and a bell. MONICA GAGLIANO: It's a very biased view that humans have in particular towards others. ", ROBERT: So the deer's like, "Oh, well. Because if I let you go it's gonna be another 20 minutes until I get to talk. JENNIFER FRAZER: These little soil particles. JAD: And is it as dramatic in the opposite direction? It's condensation. I've been looking around lately, and I know that intelligence is not unique to humans. I mean, to say that a plant is choosing a direction, I don't know. 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. That is correct. On one side, instead of the pipe with water, she attaches an MP3 player with a little speaker playing a recording of And then on the other side, Monica has another MP3 player with a speaker. And all of a sudden, one of them says, "Oh, oh, oh, oh! She's a forestry professor at the University of British Columbia. SUZANNE SIMARD: And there was a lot of skepticism at the time. Five, four, three, two, one, drop! Her use of metaphor. JENNFER FRAZER: Well, they do it because the tree has something the fungus needs, and the fungus has something the tree needs. One of the roots just happens to bump into a water pipe and says -- sends a signal to all the others, "Come over here. ROBERT: So maybe could you just describe it just briefly just what you did? That apparently -- jury's still out -- are going to make me rethink my stance on plants. It's a costly process for this plant, but ROBERT: She figured out they weren't tired. Is that what -- is that what this? Radiolab: Smarty Plants. Read about Smarty Plants by Radiolab and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. From just bears throwing fish on the ground? They still remembered. It was like, Oh, I might disturb my plants!" And then Monica would ROBERT: Just about, you know, seven or eight inches. ROBERT: They remembered what had happened three days before, that dropping didn't hurt, that they didn't have to fold up. We went and looked for ourselves. And might as well start the story back when she was a little girl. JENNIFER FRAZER: Carbon, which is science speak for food. She made sure that the dirt didn't get wet, because she'd actually fastened the water pipe to the outside of the pot. In the little springtail bodies there were little tubes growing inside them. So no plants were actually hurt in this experiment. Well, people have been measuring this in different forests and ecosystems around the world, and the estimate is anywhere from 20 to 80 percent will go into the ground. Yeah. ROBERT: She found that the one stimulus that would be perfect was MONICA GAGLIANO: A little fan. There was a healthier community when they were mixed and I wanted to figure out why. Yeah. Connecting your house to the main city water line that's in the middle of the street. We dropped. MONICA GAGLIANO: I purposely removed the chance for a moisture gradient. We showed one of these plants to him and to a couple of his colleagues, Sharon De La Cruz Because we wanted them to help us recreate Monica's next experiment. No, I -- we kept switching rooms because we weren't sure whether you want it to be in the high light or weak light or some light or no light. I mean, can you remember what you were doing a month ago? ROBERT: But once again I kind of wondered if -- since the plant doesn't have a brain or even neurons to connect the idea of light and wind or whatever, where would they put that information? 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. ROBERT: But what -- how would a plant hear something? What the team found is the food ends up very often with trees that are new in the forest and better at surviving global warming. No. Are going to make me rethink my stance on plants. All right. Is it ROBERT: This is like metaphor is letting in the light as opposed to shutting down the blinds. ROBERT: So now, they had the radioactive particles inside their trunks and their branches. ROBERT: And the idea was, she wanted to know like, once the radioactive particles were in the tree, what happens next? No boink anymore. That's okay. But when we look at the below ground structure, it looks so much like a brain physically, and now that we're starting to understand how it works, we're going, wow, there's so many parallels. If you get too wrapped up in your poetic metaphor, you're very likely to be misled and to over-interpret the data. More information about Sloan at www.sloan.org]. Or even learn? Sugar. He shoves away the leaves, he shoves away the topsoil. Picasso! It's now the Wood Wide Web? ROBERT: So you are related and you're both in the plumbing business? That's okay. Never mind. JENNIFER FRAZER: Apparently she built some sort of apparatus. In the state of California, a medicinal marijuana cultivation license allows for the cultivation of up to 99 plants. And ROBERT: Since he was so deep down in there. MONICA GAGLIANO: So then at one point, when you only play the bell for the dog, or you, you know, play the fan for the plant, we know now for the dogs, the dog is expecting. LARRY UBELL: It's kind of like a cold glass sitting on your desk and there's always a puddle at the bottom. Well, I asked Suzanne about that. SUZANNE SIMARD: 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. One time, the plant literally flew out of the pot and upended with roots exposed. And after not a whole lot of drops, the plant, she noticed, stopped closing its leaves. Maybe each root is -- is like a little ear for the plant. But let me just -- let me give it a try. The same one that are used in computers like, you know, really tiny. So the deer's like, "Oh, well. The thing I don't get is in animals, the hairs in our ear are sending the signals to a brain and that is what chooses what to do. And moved around, but always matched in the same way together. The water is still in there. Wait a second. There's -- on the science side, there's a real suspicion of anything that's anthropomorphizing a plant. ALVIN UBELL: Testing one, two. Okay? 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. LARRY UBELL: We are the principals of Accurate Building Inspectors of Brooklyn, New York. ROBERT: And on this particular day, she's with the whole family. JAD: If a plant doesn't have a brain what is choosing where to go? Tagged #science #technology #philosophy #education #radiolab. It's okay, puppy. Exactly. No question there. ALVIN UBELL: And the tree happens to be a weeping willow. [laughs] When I write a blog post, my posts that get the least traffic guaranteed are the plant posts. Jad and Robert, they are split on this one. Now, it turns out that they're networked, and together they're capable of doing things, of behaviors, forestrial behaviors, that are deeply new. ROBERT: But after five days, she found that 80% of the time, the plants went -- or maybe chose -- to head toward the dry pipe that has water in it. ROBERT: Two very different options for our plant. It's condensation. JAD: And the plant still went to the place where the pipe was not even in the dirt? Nothing delicious at all. Yes. [ENRIQUE: This is Enrique Romero from the bordertown of Laredo, Texas. And so now we're down there. The other important thing we figured out is that, as those trees are injured and dying, they'll dump their carbon into their neighbors. JAD: So they just went right for the MP3 fake water, not even the actual water? I can scream my head off if I want to. LARRY UBELL: Yes, we are related. ANNIE MCEWEN: What was your reaction when you saw this happen? PETER LANDGREN: Little seatbelt for him for the ride down. This -- this actually happened to me. Smarty Plants. Like, the plant is hunting? And I know lots of kids do that, but I was especially ROBERT: I'm sorry? Monica's work has actually gotten quite a bit of attention from other plant biologists. ROBERT: Let me just back up for a second so that you can -- to set the scene for you. Like, would they figure it out faster this time? JENNIFER FRAZER: So what do we have in our ears that we use to hear sound? ROBERT: Fan, light, lean. 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. But maybe it makes her sort of more open-minded than -- than someone who's just looking at a notebook. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. LARRY UBELL: All right, my hypothesis is that what happens is LARRY UBELL: Can I -- can I have a few minutes? And why would -- why would the fungi want to make this network? ROBERT: So after much trial and error with click and hums and buzzes MONICA GAGLIANO: All sorts of randomness. ROBERT: Yeah. MONICA GAGLIANO: Exactly. And then when times are hard, that fungi will give me my sugar back and I can start growing again. JENNIFER FRAZER: That something bad is happening. Yours is back of your house, but let's make it in the front. Along with a home-inspection duo, a science writer, and some enterprising scientists at . For this part of our broadcast, I'd like to begin by imagining a tall, dark, dense, green forest. I don't know if you're a bank or if you're an -- so it's not necessarily saying, "Give it to the new guy." ROBERT: Truth is, I think on this point she's got a -- she's right. So Pavlov started by getting some dogs and some meat and a bell. St. Andrew's Magazine Dr. Aatish Bhatia Inspires Students & Faculty. Just for example Let's say it's -- times are good. And that's just the beginning. And I'm wondering whether Monica is gonna run into, as she tries to make plants more animal-like, whether she's just going to run into this malice from the scientific -- I'm just wondering, do you share any of that? But it didn't happen. ROBERT: Yeah. Annie McWen or McEwen ], Latif Nasser, Malissa O'Donnell, Arianne Wack ], With help from Amanda Aronczyk, Shima Oliaee ], Niles Hughes, Jake Arlow, Nigar Fatali ], And lastly, a friendly reminder. JENNIFER FRAZER: Finally, one time he did not bring the meat, but he rang the bell. ROBERT: But once again I kind of wondered if -- since the plant doesn't have a brain or even neurons to connect the idea of light and wind or whatever, where would they put that information? MONICA GAGLIANO: Picasso, enough of that now. MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah. Wait a second. And she says this time they relaxed almost immediately. Plants are complex and ancient organisms. ROBERT: She found that the one stimulus that would be perfect was MONICA GAGLIANO: A little fan. That there was a kind of a moral objection to thinking it this way. ROBERT: And then later, scientists finally looked at these things under much more powerful microscopes, and realized the threads weren't threads, really. Minerals from the soil. And if you don't have one, by default you can't do much in general. Right? The Ubells see this happening all the time. Walker Wolff. It's kind of like a cold glass sitting on your desk, and there's always a puddle at the bottom. So maybe the root hairs, which are always found right at the growing tips of plant roots, maybe plant roots are like little ears. This is Ashley Harding from St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. Well, I have one thing just out of curiosity As we were winding up with our home inspectors, Alvin and Larry Ubell, we thought maybe we should run this metaphor idea by them. This feels one of those experiments where you just abort it on humanitarian grounds, you know? I think there are some cases where romanticizing something could possibly lead you to some interesting results. So he brought them some meat. JENNIFER FRAZER: Yeah, it might run out of fuel. How much longer? Then she takes the little light and the little fan and moves them to the other side of the plant. ROBERT: And with these two stimuli, she put the plants, the little pea plants through a kind of training regime. As abundant as what was going on above ground. He's holding his hand maybe a foot off the ground. Wait a second. And then I needed to -- the difficulty I guess, of the experiment was to find something that will be quite irrelevant and really meant nothing to the plant to start with. And every day that goes by, I have less of an issue from the day before. Hopefully I tied that into cannabis well enough to not get removed. . Exactly. That's the place where I can remember things. 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. I mean, I think there's something to that. ROBERT: Ring, meat, eat. And then they do stuff. So they can't move. So you are related and you're both in the plumbing business? ROBERT: What happened to you didn't happen to us. She says it was like this moment where she realizes, "Oh, my God! And then she waited a few more days and came back. The plants would always grow towards the light. I don't know yet. Back and forth. Is it ROBERT: This is like metaphor is letting in the light as opposed to shutting down the blinds. Very similar to the sorts of vitamins and minerals that humans need. Unfortunately, right at that point Suzanne basically ran off to another meeting. Peering down at the plants under the red glow of her headlamp. SUZANNE SIMARD: Into the roots, and then into the microbial community, which includes the mushroom team, yeah. And now, if you fast-forward roughly 30 years, she then makes a discovery that I find kind of amazing. So light is -- if you shine light on a plant you're, like, feeding it? 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. 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. ROBERT: Then of course because it's the BBC, they take a picture of it. LARRY UBELL: Or it's just the vibration of the pipe that's making it go toward it. So light is -- if you shine light on a plant you're, like, feeding it? Just a boring set of twigs. MONICA GAGLIANO: Not really. ROBERT: And she says she began to notice things that, you know, one wouldn't really expect. Testing one, two. I was like, "Oh, my God! 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. Along with a home-inspection duo, a science writer, and some enterprising scientists at Princeton University, we turn our brain-centered worldview on its head through a series of clever experiments that show plants doing things we never would've imagined. No, Summer is a real person and her last name happens to be spelled R-A-Y-N-E. So we went back to Monica. Me first. "I'm in the neighborhood. ROBERT: So let's go to the first. ROBERT: And so now we're down there. MONICA GAGLIANO: Pretty much like the concept of Pavlov with his dog applied. And again. So -- so carbon will move from that dying tree. She's done three experiments, and I think if I tell you about what she has done, you -- even you -- will be provoked into thinking that plants can do stuff you didn't imagine, dream they could do. Like the bell for the dog. That's a parade I'll show up for. ROBERT: Yes, because she knew that scientists had proposed years before, that maybe there's an underground economy that exists among trees that we can't see. ROBERT: I know -- I know you -- I know you don't. Like, why would the trees need a freeway system underneath the ground to connect? And not too far away from this tree, underground, there is a water pipe. What happened to you didn't happen to us. ROBERT: Science writer Jen Frazer gave us kind of the standard story. Sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh. And this is what makes it even more gruesome. ROBERT: And her family included a dog named Jigs. We are the principals of Accurate Building Inspectors of Brooklyn, New York. They still did not close when she dropped them. No. Along with a home-inspection duo, a science writer, and some enterprising scientists at Princeton University, wedig into the work of evolutionaryecologist Monica Gagliano, who turns ourbrain-centered worldview on its head through a series of clever experiments that show plants doing things we never would've imagined. Like, how can a plant -- how does a plant do that? They're called feeder roots. It's almost as if these plants -- it's almost as if they know where our pipes are. ROBERT: There's -- on the science side, there's a real suspicion of anything that's anthropomorphizing a plant. Support Radiolab today at Radiolab.org/donate. And Roy by the way, comes out with this strange -- it's like a rake. An expert. That is cool. JENNIFER FRAZER: Into which she put these sensitive plants. Just a boring set of twigs. JENNIFER FRAZER: One of the things they eat is fungus. You give me -- like, I want wind, birds, chipmunks JAD: Like, I'm not, like, your sound puppet here. They play with sound and story in a way that's incredibly intriguing, I was instantly hooked with More Perfect. The water is still in there. He's got lots of questions about her research methods, but really his major complaint is -- is her language. Again. ROBERT: Instead of eating the fungus, it turns out the fungus ate them. Like, they don't have ears or a brain or anything like, they couldn't hear like we hear. But white, translucent and hairy, sort of. Nothing happened at all. Okay? If a plant doesn't have a brain what is choosing where to go? ], [JENNIFER FRAZER: Dylan Keefe is our Director of Sound Design. This is Ashley Harding from St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. say they're very curious, but want to see these experiments repeated. We waiting for the leaves to, you know, stop folding. AATISH BHATIA: All right. But it didn't happen. JAD: No, it's because it's like every time I close my eyes, you're coming at it from a different direction. JAD: The plants -- the plants stopped -- what is it they did? JENNIFER FRAZER: But we don't know. More information about Sloan at www.sloan.org]. Well, I have one thing just out of curiosity ROBERT: As we were winding up with our home inspectors, Alvin and Larry Ubell, we thought maybe we should run this metaphor idea by them. People speculated about this, but no one had actually proved it in nature in the woods until Suzanne shows up. He's the only springtail with a trench coat and a fedora. JENNIFER FRAZER: And the fungus actually builds a tunnel inside the rock. And the pea plant leans toward them. JENNIFER FRAZER: So Pavlov started by getting some dogs and some meat and a bell. Fan, light, lean. No, I don't because she may come up against it, people who think that intelligence is unique to humans. 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 . They designed from scratch a towering parachute drop in blue translucent Lego pieces. I think there are some cases where romanticizing something could possibly lead you to some interesting results. Then Monica hoists the plant back up again and drops it again. ROBERT: That is correct. JENNIFER FRAZER: With when they actually saw and smelled and ate meat. MONICA GAGLIANO: Picasso! MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah, mimosa has been one of the pet plants, I guess, for many scientists for, like, centuries. ROBERT: Suzanne says she's not sure if the tree is running the show and saying like, you know, "Give it to the new guy." This is the fungus. Was it possible that maybe the plants correctly responded by not opening, because something really mad was happening around it and it's like, "This place is not safe.". JAD: That is cool. Into which she put these sensitive plants. Just for example JENNIFER FRAZER: Let's say it's -- times are good. Well, they do it because the tree has something the fungus needs, and the fungus has something the tree needs. I go out and I thought there's no one here on Sunday afternoon. Again, if you imagine that the pot, my experimental pot. And with these two stimuli, she put the plants, the little pea plants through a kind of training regime. ], Radiolab was created by Jad Abumrad and is produced by Soren Wheeler. LARRY UBELL: That -- that's -- that's interesting. This is by the way, what her entire family had done, her dad and her grandparents. Radiolab - Smarty Plants . MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah. All right, my hypothesis is that what happens is You got somewhere to go? I'm 84. Well, maybe. Well, I created these horrible contraptions. ROBERT: Like, I don't understand -- learning, as far as I understand it, is something that involves memory and storage. Well, it depends on who you ask. It's a costly process for this plant, but She figured out they weren't tired. We dropped. 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 And those chemicals will then move through the network and warn neighboring trees or seedlings. People speculated about this, but no one had actually proved it in nature in the woods until Suzanne shows up. When you go into a forest, you see a tree, a tall tree. So -- so carbon will move from that dying tree. Instead of eating the fungus, it turns out the fungus ate them. SUZANNE SIMARD: Where we've all been, you know, doing our daily business. Here's the water.". 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