MONICA GAGLIANO: Landing very comfortably onto a padded base made of foam. It was like -- it was like a huge network. ROBERT: When we last left off, I'm just saying you just said intelligence. It's gone. 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. They still remembered. They can also send warning signals through the fungus. Exactly. So I don't have an issue with that. I don't know yet. He was a, not a wiener dog. Kind of even like, could there be a brain, or could there be ears or, you know, just sort of like going off the deep end there. To remember? This is the plant and pipe mystery. It'd be all random. They have to -- have to edit in this together. LATIF: It's like a bank? A little while back, I had a rather boisterous conversation with these two guys. And then what happens? And it was almost like, let's see how much I have to stretch it here before you forget. But they do have root hairs. It was a simple little experiment. 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 dogs is expecting. It's not leaking. Radiolab is supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, enhancing public understanding of Science and Technology in the modern world. JAD: So today we have a triptych of experiments about plants. But still. So that's where these -- the scientists from Princeton come in: Peter, Sharon and Aatish. Sugar. This is the plant and pipe mystery. 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. All right. Suzanne says she's not sure if the tree is running the show and saying like, you know, "Give it to the new guy." You should definitely go out and check out her blog, The Artful Amoeba, especially to the posts, the forlorn ones about plants. He'd fallen in. I don't know yet. MONICA GAGLIANO: Again, if you imagine that the pot, my experimental pot. ROBERT: They would salivate and then eat the meat. ROBERT: Like, would they figure it out faster this time? Okay. So she takes the plants, she puts them into the parachute drop, she drops them. They may have this intelligence, maybe we're just not smart enough yet to figure it out. And the pea plants are left alone to sit in this quiet, dark room feeling the breeze. Okay? If you get too wrapped up in your poetic metaphor, you're very likely to be misled and to over-interpret the data. Jigs is in trouble!" And again. ROBERT: So there is some water outside of the pipe. It's like a savings account? But they do have root hairs. We dropped. You have to understand that the cold water pipe causes even a small amount of water to condense on the pipe itself. I think there are some cases where romanticizing something could possibly lead you to some interesting results. MONICA GAGLIANO: Well, I created these horrible contraptions. You're doing the -- like, okay first it was the roots under the ground all connected into a whole hive thing. MONICA GAGLIANO: I wonder if that was maybe a bit too much. It was summertime. Like for example, my plants were all in environment-controlled rooms, which is not a minor detail. MONICA GAGLIANO: Again, if you imagine that the pot, my experimental pot. Oh. It's a very biased view that humans have in particular towards others. They designed from scratch a towering parachute drop in blue translucent Lego pieces. The fungi, you know, after it's rained and snowed and the carcass has seeped down into the soil a bit, the fungi then go and they drink the salmon carcass down and then send it off to the tree. 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. Like so -- and I think that, you know, the whole forest then, there's an intelligence there that's beyond just the species. Or maybe slower? Just the sound of it? We waiting for the leaves to, you know, stop folding. All right, that's it, I think. MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah, I know. It's condensation. No, I guess that I feel kind of good to say this. Listen to Radiolab: "Smarty Plants" on Pandora - Do you really need a brain to sense the world around you? JAD: So you couldn't replicate what she saw. So after the first few, the plants already realized that that was not necessary. More information about Sloan at www.sloan.org]. It's gone. I found a little water! They're all out in the forest. And remember, if you're a springtail, don't talk to strange mushrooms. The magnolia tree outside of our house got into the sewer pipes, reached its tentacles into our house and busted the sewage pipe. 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. ROBERT: [laughs] You mean, like the World Wide Web? I don't know why you have problems with this. Science writer Jen Frazer gave us kind of the standard story. I can scream my head off if I want to. ROBERT: So that's what the tree gives the fungus. If a nosy deer happens to bump into it, the mimosa plant Curls all its leaves up against its stem. The part where the water pipe was, the pipe was on the outside of the pot? And it's in that little space between them that they make the exchange. My reaction was, "Oh ****!" So after the first few, the plants already realized that that was not necessary. Nothing happened at all. And so we're digging away, and Jigs was, you know, looking up with his paws, you know, and looking at us, waiting. Well, some of them can first of all, and big deal. The water is still in there. JENNIFER FRAZER: But we don't know. Different kind of signal traveling through the soil? So I'd seal the plant, the tree in a plastic bag, and then I would inject gas, so tagged with a -- with an isotope, which is radioactive. This way there is often more questions than answers, but that's part of the fun as well. Me first. Fan, light, lean. MONICA GAGLIANO: My reaction was like, "Oh ****!" And it was almost like, let's see how much I have to stretch it here before you forget. These guys are actually doing it." Maybe there's some kind of signal? 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: And she was willing to entertain the possibility that plants can do something like hear. And then all the other ones go in the same direction. There's not a leak in the glass. So today we have a triptych of experiments about plants. ROBERT: This final thought. Submitted by Irene Kaufman on Sun, 04/08/2018 - 12:58pm. So she decided to conduct her experiment. Does it threaten my sense of myself or my place as a human that a plant can do this? JAD: That apparently -- jury's still out. Or it's just the vibration of the pipe that's making it go toward it. How much longer? Peering down at the plants under the red glow of her headlamp. The fungus were literally sucking the nitrogen out of the springtails, and it was too late to get away. And I need a bird, a lot of birds, actually. But then, scientists did an experiment where they gave some springtails some fungus to eat. They're called feeder roots. And every day that goes by, I have less of an issue from the day before. Pics! 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. One time, the plant literally flew out of the pot and upended with roots exposed. Her use of metaphor. So maybe the root hairs, which are always found right at the growing tips of plant roots, maybe plant roots are like little ears. They definitely don't have a brain. 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. Again. It's a very biased view that humans have in particular towards others. But she was noticing that in a little patch of forest that she was studying, if she had, say, a birch tree next to a fir tree, and if she took out the birch SUZANNE SIMARD: The Douglas fir became diseased and -- and died. Let him talk. ROBERT: This is the fungus. Oh, well that's a miracle. Yes, we are related. I guess you could call it a mimosa plant drop box. Radiolab - Smarty Plants . He shoves away the leaves, he shoves away the topsoil. It turns that carbon into sugar, which it uses to make its trunk and its branches, anything thick you see on a tree is just basically air made into stuff. Kind of even like, could there be a brain, or could there be ears or, you know, just sort of like going off the deep end there. And I do that in my brain. There's this whole other world right beneath my feet. There's -- on the science side, there's a real suspicion of anything that's anthropomorphizing a plant. Well, it depends on who you ask. 2016. Well, let us say you have a yard in front of your house. Yeah, absolutely. More information about Sloan at www.sloan.org]. It's almost as if these plants -- it's almost as if they know where our pipes are. ALVIN UBELL: Testing one, two. And I met a plant biologist who's gonna lead that parade. ROBERT: Huh. And we were all like, "Oh, my goodness! ROBERT: Actually, Monica's dog leads perfectly into her third experiment, which again will be with a plant. [laughs]. 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. So that's where these -- the scientists from Princeton come in: Peter, Sharon and Aatish. They're all out in the forest. Let him talk. That is definitely cool. A forest can feel like a place of great stillness and quiet. They still remembered. Handheld? ROBERT: And I wanted to talk to them because, as building inspectors they -- there's something they see over and over and over. LARRY UBELL: Me first. say they're very curious, but want to see these experiments repeated. On the outside of the pipe. As soon as we labeled them, we used the Geiger counter to -- and ran it up and down the trees, and we could tell that they were hot, they were boo boo boo boo boo, right? She thinks that they somehow remembered all those drops and it never hurt, so they didn't fold up any more. ROBERT: So you are related and you're both in the plumbing business? ROBERT: Now, you might think that the plant sends out roots in every direction. Jigs had provided this incredible window for me, you know, in this digging escapade to see how many different colors they were, how many different shapes there were, that they were so intertwined. Special thanks to Dr. Teresa Ryan of the University of British Columbia, Faculty of Forestry, to our intern Stephanie Tam, to Roy Halling and the Bronx Botanical Garden, and to Stephenson Swanson there. What do mean, the fungi will give me my sugar back? So they can't move. So Pavlov started by getting some dogs and some meat and a bell. And the fungus actually builds a tunnel inside the rock. These sensitive hairs he argues, would probably be able to feel that tiny difference. So today we have a triptych of experiments about plants. But she had a kind of, maybe call it a Jigs-ian recollection. It is like a bank! 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. Now, can you -- can you imagine what we did wrong? But let me just -- let me give it a try. So that's where these -- the scientists from Princeton come in: Peter, Sharon and Aatish. ROBERT: So if a beetle were to invade the forest, the trees tell the next tree over, "Here come the --" like Paul Revere, sort of? ROBERT: By the way, should we establish -- is it a fact that you're ALVIN UBELL: He's on the right track. So he brought them some meat. Picture one of those parachute drops that they have at the -- at state fairs or amusement parks where you're hoisted up to the top. Jun 3, 2019 - In our Animal Minds episode, we met a group of divers who rescued a humpback whale, then shared a really incredible moment.a moment in which the divers are convinced that the whale . They don't do well in warm temperatures and their needles turn all sickly yellow. Well, it depends on who you ask. No, I actually, like even this morning it's already like poof! Yeah, mimosa has been one of the pet plants, I guess, for many scientists for, like, centuries. And then she waited a few more days and came back. 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 ROBERT: And then on the other side, Monica has another MP3 player with a speaker. So the fungus is giving the tree the minerals. JENNIFER FRAZER: Yeah, it might run out of fuel. So we're up to experiment two now, are we not? Ring, meat, eat. And the tubes branch and sometimes they reconnect. With when they actually saw and smelled and ate meat. That's a parade I'll show up for. ROBERT: Yeah. ROBERT: Eventually, she came back after ROBERT: And they still remembered. ROBERT: They stopped folding up. You got the plant to associate the fan with food. Have you hugged your houseplant today? And then Monica would ROBERT: Just about, you know, seven or eight inches. LARRY UBELL: That -- that would be an interesting ALVIN UBELL: Don't interrupt. They may have this intelligence, maybe we're just not smart enough yet to figure it out. It was like, Oh, I might disturb my plants!" JAD: This -- this actually happened to me. On the fifth day, they take a look and discover most of the roots, a majority of the roots were heading toward the sound of water. ROBERT: No, no, no, no, no. And then I would cover them in plastic bags. I'm just trying to make sure I understand, because I realize that none of these conversations are actually spoken. ROBERT: So if all a tree could do was split air to get carbon, you'd have a tree the size of a tulip. Radiolab is supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, enhancing public understanding of science and technology in the modern world. That was my reaction. In this case, a little blue LED light. What's its job? This is the headphones? Well of course, there could be a whole -- any number of reasons why, you know, one tree's affected by another. SUZANNE SIMARD: Douglas fir, birch and cedar. [laughs] When I write a blog post, my posts that get the least traffic guaranteed are the plant posts. So it's not that it couldn't fold up, it's just that during the dropping, it learned that it didn't need to. 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. Because if I let you go it's gonna be another 20 minutes until I get to talk. ROBERT: No. We're just learning about them now, and they're so interesting. So -- so carbon will move from that dying tree. And the -- I'm gonna mix metaphors here, the webs it weaves. It's a costly process for this plant, but ROBERT: She figured out they weren't tired. Robert Krulwich. I'm gonna just go there. He says something about that's the wrong season. And again. 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. If you look at a root under a microscope, what you see is all these thousands of feelers like hairs on your head looking for water. ], Test the outer edges of what you think you know. And a little wind. MONICA GAGLIANO: A plant that is quite far away from the actual pipe. ROBERT: A tree needs something else. 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. SUZANNE SIMARD: And so my mom always talks about how she had to constantly be giving me worm medicine because I was -- I always had worms. Her use of metaphor. Then she takes the little light and the little fan and moves them to the other side of the plant. On the fifth day, they take a look and discover most of the roots, a majority of the roots were heading toward the sound of water. Oh, one more thing. My name is Monica Gagliano. That's okay. ROBERT: The plants would always grow towards the light. Jennifer told Latif and I about another role that these fungi play. Salmon consumption. And I wanted to talk to them because, as building inspectors they -- there's something they see over and over and over. ROBERT: The plants would always grow towards the light. Like, how can a plant -- how does a plant do that? We went and looked for ourselves. She's working in the timber industry at the time. JENNIFER FRAZER: Well, maybe. Yeah, I know. It's okay. Well, so what's the end of the story? The roots of this tree of course can go any way they want to go. I mean, I see the dirt. JAD: So they just went right for the MP3 fake water, not even the actual water? So it wasn't touching the dirt at all. Never mind.". ROBERT: Yeah. And then I would cover them in plastic bags. All in all, turns out one tree was connected to 47 other trees all around it. We waiting for the leaves to, you know, stop folding. So we went back to Monica. Liquid rocks. And if you don't have one, by default you can't do much in general. They definitely don't have a brain. Can Robert get Jad to join the march? Yeah. I go out and I thought there's no one here on Sunday afternoon. Right? This story was nurtured and fed and ultimately produced by Annie McEwen. And when you measure them, like one study we saw found up to seven miles of this little threading What is this thing? Sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh. And you don't see it anywhere. ROBERT: Truth is, I think on this point she's got a -- she's right. . JAD: Wait. So the question is MONICA GAGLIANO: A plant that is quite far away from the actual pipe, how does it know which way to turn and grow its roots so that it can find the water? That is cool. MONICA GAGLIANO: Picasso, enough of that now. And all of a sudden, one of them says, "Oh, oh, oh, oh! Now the plants if they were truly dumb they'd go 50/50. Thud. ROBERT: Had indeed turned and moved toward the fan, stretching up their little leaves as if they were sure that at any moment now light would arrive. SUZANNE SIMARD: They start producing chemicals that taste really bad. JENNIFER FRAZER: With when they actually saw and smelled and ate meat. I mean, it's a kind of romanticism, I think. And so now we're down there. ROBERT: And he pokes it at this little springtail, and the springtail goes boing! 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! Robert, I have -- you know what? From just bears throwing fish on the ground? She says a timber company would move in and clear cut an entire patch of forest, and then plant some new trees. JAD: But still. On the outside of the pipe. No. So she's saying they remembered for almost a month? JENNFER FRAZER: Well, they do it because the tree has something the fungus needs, and the fungus has something the tree needs. Enough of that! 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. Like, from the trees perspective, how much of their sugar are they giving to the fungus? And if you just touch it ROBERT: You can actually watch this cascade ROBERT: Where all the leaves close in, like do do do do do do. And again. 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. I gotta say, doing this story, this is the part that knocked me silly. ROBERT: say they're very curious, but want to see these experiments repeated. That is definitely cool. This peculiar plant has a -- has a surprising little skill. It's a costly process for this plant, but ROBERT: She figured out they weren't tired. ALVIN UBELL: They would have to have some ROBERT: Maybe there's some kind of signal? ROBERT: But it has, like, an expandable ROBERT: Oh, it's an -- oh, listen to that! ROBERT: And this? They designed from scratch a towering parachute drop in blue translucent Lego pieces. No question there. Testing one, two. 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. AATISH BHATIA: All right. Fan, light, lean. Like, the tree was, like, already doing that stuff by itself, but it's the fungus that's doing that stuff? How does it know which way to turn and grow its roots so that it can find the water? Well, you can see the white stuff is the fungus. And if you don't have one, by default you can't do much in general. They're one of our closest relatives, actually. I go out and I thought there's no one here on Sunday afternoon. That is correct. JAD: Are you bringing the plant parade again? Super interesting how alive our plants really are! So you -- if you would take away the fish, the trees would be, like, blitzed. And so I don't have a problem with that. SUZANNE SIMARD: And there was a lot of skepticism at the time. MONICA GAGLIANO: I don't know. Little fan goes on, little light goes on, both aiming at the pea plant from the same direction. MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah. It's time -- time for us to go and lie down on the soft forest floor. ROBERT: I don't know why you have problems with this. So its resources, its legacy will move into the mycorrhizal network into neighboring trees. ROBERT: And we dropped it once, and twice. Different kind of signal traveling through the soil? 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." LARRY UBELL: Good. 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 . It's almost as if the forest is acting as an organism itself. Today, Robert drags Jad along on a parade for the surprising feats of brainless plants. And I've been in the construction industry ever since I'm about 16 years old. From Tree to Shining Tree. ROBERT: Five, four, three, two, one, drop! 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. Is it ROBERT: This is like metaphor is letting in the light as opposed to shutting down the blinds. We need to take a break first, but when we come back, the parade that I want you to join will come and swoop you up and carry you along in a flow of enthusiasm. They're switched on. JAD: Where would the -- a little plant even store a memory? ROBERT: Had indeed turned and moved toward the fan, stretching up their little leaves as if they were sure that at any moment now light would arrive. So she takes the plants, she puts them into the parachute drop, she drops them. ROBERT: She thinks that they somehow remembered all those drops and it never hurt, so they didn't fold up any more. 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 . The same one that are used in computers like, you know, really tiny. 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. 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. Favorite 46 Add to Repost 7. ROBERT: But instead of dogs, she had pea plants in a dark room. She says one of the weirdest parts of this though, is when sick trees give up their food, the food doesn't usually go to their kids or even to trees of the same species. So otherwise they can't photosynthesize. We need to take a break first, but when we come back, the parade that I want you to join will come and swoop you up and carry you along in a flow of enthusiasm. 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. But it was originally done with -- with a dog. You got somewhere to go? Little fan goes on, little light goes on, both aiming at the pea plant from the same direction. And moved around, but always matched in the same way together. This story JAD: You'll get your sound at some point. ], [JENNIFER FRAZER: This is Jennifer Frazer, and I'm a freelance science writer and blogger of The Artful Amoeba at Scientific American. And Roy by the way, comes out with this strange -- it's like a rake. Like trees of different species are supposed to fight each other for sunshine, right? Sugar. Radiolab - Smarty Plants. But maybe it makes her sort of more open-minded than -- than someone who's just looking at a notebook. JAD: Couldn't it just be an entirely different interpretation here? 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. He's not a huge fan of. 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: These little soil particles. If you get too wrapped up in your poetic metaphor, you're very likely to be misled and to over-interpret the data. And so I don't have a problem with that. Okay. ], [JENNIFER FRAZER: Our fact-checkers are Eva Dasher and Michelle Harris. Here's the water.". In 1997, a couple of scientists wrote a paper which describes how fungi Jennifer says that what the tubes do is they worm their way back and forth through the soil until they bump into some pebbles. To remember? In my brain. 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. 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. 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