Listen to this episode from Radiolab: Viper Members on Spotify. This peculiar plant has a -- has a surprising little skill. Robert, I have -- you know what? To remember? And it's more expensive. ], Radiolab was created by Jad Abumrad and is produced by Soren Wheeler. Nothing delicious at all. I'm a professor emeritus of plant biology at UC Santa Cruz. JAD: Couldn't it just be an entirely different interpretation here? And the tubes branch and sometimes they reconnect. The fact that humans do it in a particular way, it doesn't mean that everyone needs to do it in that way to be able to do it in the first place. Every one of them. ROBERT: Huh. What do mean, the fungi will give me my sugar back? JENNIFER FRAZER: Carbon, which is science speak for food. And lignin is full of nitrogen, but also compounds like nitrogen is important in DNA, right? Fan, light, lean. They start producing chemicals that taste really bad. So there is some water outside of the pipe. It was summertime. 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. 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. This is Ashley Harding from St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. Pretty much like the concept of Pavlov with his dog applied. To remember? And I'm wondering whether Monica is gonna run into, as she tries to make plants more animal-like, whether she's just gonna run into this malice from the scientific -- I'm just wondering, do you share any of that? And so I don't have a problem with that. LARRY UBELL: Yes, we are related. I don't know yet. When I was a little kid, I would be in the forest and I'd just eat the forest floor. And so we're digging away, and Jigs was, you know, looking up with his paws, you know, and looking at us, waiting. JAD: And the plant still went to the place where the pipe was not even in the dirt? I've been looking around lately, and I know that intelligence is not unique to humans. I was like, "Oh, my God! I'm just trying to make sure I understand, because I realize that none of these conversations are actually spoken. You do. So if a beetle were to invade the forest, the trees tell the next tree over, "Here come the --" like Paul Revere, sort of? Five, four, three, two, one, drop! You know, one of those little jeweler's glasses? Just the sound of it? So we're really -- like this is -- we're really at the very beginning of this. Well, it depends on who you ask. Science writer Jen Frazer gave us the kind of the standard story. Never mind. MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah. Picasso! ROBERT: Salmon consumption. And then they do stuff. ROBERT: And we dropped it once, and twice. MONICA GAGLIANO: I created these horrible contraptions. Me first. That is definitely cool. ROBERT: But that scientist I mentioned MONICA GAGLIANO: My name is Monica Gagliano. If you have this kind of license, then you are only allowed to grow up to that certain height; if . And again. MONICA GAGLIANO: Landing very comfortably onto a padded base made of foam. MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah, mimosa has been one of the pet plants, I guess, for many scientists for, like, centuries. ROBERT: We, as you know, built your elevator. What's its job? So you are related and you're both in the plumbing business? And I do that in my brain. LARRY UBELL: It's not leaking. More information about Sloan at www.sloan.org]. ROBERT: All right, never mind. The bell, the meat and the salivation. I don't know where you were that day. ROBERT: Are you, like, aggressively looking around for -- like, do you wake up in the morning saying, "Now what can I get a plant to do that reminds me of my dog, or reminds me of a bear, or reminds me of a bee?". JENNIFER FRAZER: They had learned to associate the sound of the bell ROBERT: Which has, you know, for dogs has nothing to do with meat. JENNIFER FRAZER: That something bad is happening. And so on. Well, it depends on who you ask. I guess you could call it a mimosa plant drop box. You mean you got down on all fours and just SUZANNE SIMARD: Yeah, I would just eat the dirt. They may have this intelligence, maybe we're just not smart enough yet to figure it out. No. Good. And so of course, that was only the beginning. And after not a whole lot of drops, the plant, she noticed, stopped closing its leaves. This is not so good" signal through the network. Radiolab is supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, enhancing public understanding of science and technology in the modern world. And again. No. They will send out a "Oh, no! SUZANNE SIMARD: And, you know, my job was to track how these new plantations would grow. JAD: Wait a second. They still did not close when she dropped them. My name is Monica Gagliano. ROBERT: No. Just a boring set of twigs. 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. ], Dylan Keefe is our Director of Sound Design. 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. Maybe each root is -- is like a little ear for the plant. 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." But the drop was just shocking and sudden enough for the little plant to Do its reflex defense thing. Just the sound of it? "I'm under attack!". Like, from the trees perspective, how much of their sugar are they giving to the fungus? Wait a second. Pulled out a is that a root of some sort? LARRY UBELL: Good. JAD: So you couldn't replicate what she saw. Like a human would. On the outside of the pipe. SUZANNE SIMARD: You know, I don't completely understand. MONICA GAGLIANO: I purposely removed the chance for a moisture gradient. This is the fungus. So we figured look, if it's this easy and this matter of fact, we should be able to do this ourselves and see it for ourselves. 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." They definitely don't have a brain. Yes, in a lot of cases it is the fungus. More information about Sloan at www.sloan.org.]. It's the equivalent of a human being jumping over the Eiffel Tower. Do you have the lens? They can also send warning signals through the fungus. I know -- I know you -- I know you don't. We dropped. So otherwise they can't photosynthesize. We went and looked for ourselves. In this case, a little blue LED light. They still remembered. So if all a tree could do was split air to get carbon, you'd have a tree the size of a tulip. MONICA GAGLIANO: It's a very biased view that humans have in particular towards others. Coming up on the Plant Parade, we get to the heart -- or better yet, the root -- of a very specific type of plant. Or maybe it's the fungus under the ground is kind of like a broker and decides who gets what. She's not gonna use hot water because you don't want to cook your plants, you know? JENNIFER FRAZER: The whole thing immediately closes up and makes it look like, "Oh, there's no plant here. That is correct. 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. Yes. Maybe not with the helmet, but yeah. There are multiple ways of doing one thing, right? So today we have a triptych of experiments about plants. LARRY UBELL: We are the principals of Accurate Building Inspectors of Brooklyn, New York. 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 was like, "Oh, my God! ROBERT: And not too far away from this tree, underground, there is a water pipe. It's like every time I close my eyes, you're coming at it from a different direction. I don't know yet. Turns the fan on, turns the light on, and the plant turns and leans that way. ROBERT: So the deer's like, "Oh, well. Fan, light, lean. They don't do well in warm temperatures and their needles turn all sickly yellow. The little threads just wrapping themselves around the tree roots. JAD: The plants have to keep pulling their leaves up and they just get tired. They learned something. They will send out a "Oh, no! Never mind.". JENNIFER FRAZER: So what do we have in our ears that we use to hear sound? And then I would cover them in plastic bags. Yeah, I know. JENNIFER FRAZER: It is! ROBERT: Fan, light, lean. I wonder if that was maybe a bit too much. The light and the fan were always coming from the same direction. I thought -- I thought tree roots just sort of did -- like, I thought -- I always imagined tree roots were kind of like straws. You got somewhere to go? But we are in the home inspection business. That was my reaction. ], [JENNIFER FRAZER: With help from Amanda Aronczyk, Shima Oliaee ], [LARRY UBELL: Niles Hughes, Jake Arlow, Nigar Fatali ], [JENNIFER FRAZER: Phoebe Wang and Katie Ferguson. And it's that little, little bit of moisture that the plant will somehow sense. So she takes the plants, she puts them into the parachute drop, she drops them. And what a tree needs are minerals. I think there is something like a nervous system in the forest, because it's the same sort of large network of nodes sending signals to one another. Or even learn? So they figured out who paid for the murder. Picasso! Jad and Robert, theyare split on this one. Nothing happened at all. ALVIN UBELL: The tree will wrap its roots around that pipe. But white, translucent and hairy, sort of. 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. But We did catch up with her a few weeks later. I mean, it's -- like, when a plant bends toward sunlight. JAD: Well, okay. Testing one, two. So there seemed to be, under the ground, this fungal freeway system connecting one tree to the next to the next to the next. ROBERT: Ring, meat, eat. 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. Or maybe it's the fungus under the ground is kind of like a broker and decides who gets what. So the roots can go either left or to the right. MONICA GAGLIANO: Exactly. Just the sound of it? RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH: It's the equivalent of a human being jumping over the Eiffel Tower. They may have this intelligence, maybe we're just not smart enough yet to figure it out. So you -- if you would take away the fish, the trees would be, like, blitzed. And again. 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. This way there is often more questions than answers, but that's part of the fun as well. That's what she says. Fan, light, lean. LARRY UBELL: No, I don't because she may come up against it, people who think that intelligence is unique to humans. ROBERT: They stopped folding up. They all went closed. So she decided to conduct her experiment. 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. 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. I'm not gonna tell you. 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. The plants -- the plants stopped -- what is it they did? So she's got her plants in the pot, and we're going to now wait to see what happens. ROBERT: Packets of minerals. ROBERT: 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. 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 . SUZANNE SIMARD: Yes, that seems to be what happens. ALVIN UBELL: And the tree happens to be a weeping willow. SUZANNE SIMARD: Yeah. But no, they're all linked to each other! Little seatbelt for him for the ride down. 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. ROBERT: What do mean, the fungi will give me my sugar back? Or SUZANNE SIMARD: No. Two very different options for our plant. 0:00. JENNIFER FRAZER: Into which she put these sensitive plants. This peculiar plant has a -- has a surprising little skill. ROBERT: But she's got a little red headlamp on. It just kept curling and curling. And the salivation equivalent was the tilt of the plant? And the tree gets the message, and it sends a message back and says, "Yeah, I can do that.". I think there are some cases where romanticizing something could possibly lead you to some interesting results. JENNIFER FRAZER: The fungi needs sugar to build their bodies, the same way that we use our food to build our bodies. Again. 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. Today, Robert drags Jad along on a parade for the surprising feats of brainless plants. And remember, if you're a springtail, don't talk to strange mushrooms. ROY HALLING: So there's an oak tree right there. Because I have an appointment. Now that's a very, you know, animals do this experiment, but it got Monica thinking. I'm 84. Because if I let you go it's gonna be another 20 minutes until I get to talk. Okay. Yeah. But we don't know. It was summertime. Yeah, I know. So they might remember even for a much longer time than 28 days. Tagged #science #technology #philosophy #education #radiolab. I guess you could call it a mimosa plant drop box. ALVIN UBELL: The glass is not broken. And it's that little, little bit of moisture that the plant will somehow sense. All right. She thinks that they somehow remembered all those drops and it never hurt, so they didn't fold up any more. "I'm under attack!". MONICA GAGLIANO: Pretty much like the concept of Pavlov with his dog applied. Are you, like, aggressively looking around for -- like, do you wake up in the morning saying, "Now what can I get a plant to do that reminds me of my dog, or reminds me of a bear, or reminds me of a bee?". 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. ROBERT: But the drop was just shocking and sudden enough for the little plant to ROBERT: Then Monica hoists the plant back up again and drops it again. And the tree gets the message, and it sends a message back and says, "Yeah, I can do that.". My name is Monica Gagliano. There was a healthier community when they were mixed and I wanted to figure out why. If she's going to do this experiment, most likely she's going to use cold water. 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. Fan, light, lean. JENNIFER FRAZER: And this is what makes it even more gruesome. So -- so carbon will move from that dying tree. Where would the -- a little plant even store a memory? I think there are some cases where romanticizing something could possibly lead you to some interesting results. If a nosy deer happens to bump into it, the mimosa plant Curls all its leaves up against its stem. I mean, I think there's something to that. JENNIFER FRAZER: Well, maybe. This is the headphones? Have you hugged your houseplant today? So I think what she would argue is that we kind of proved her point. Yours is back of your house, but let's make it in the front. So he brought them some meat. Jul 30, 2016. And she was willing to entertain the possibility that plants can do something like hear. So you're like a metaphor cop with a melty heart. ROBERT: So I think what she would argue is that we kind of proved her point. Okay? Find us at 10900 W Jefferson Blvd or call (310) 390-5120 to learn more. ROBERT: So we strapped in our mimosa plant. We were waiting for the leaves to, you know, stop folding. MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah, plants really like light, you know? They designed from scratch a towering parachute drop in blue translucent Lego pieces. The same one that are used in computers like, you know, really tiny. ROBERT: Five, four, three, two, one, drop! The bell, the meat and the salivation. JAD: No, it's because it's like every time I close my eyes, you're coming at it from a different direction. 36:59. Now, can you -- can you imagine what we did wrong? 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." JENNIFER FRAZER: These little soil particles. And then when times are hard, that fungi will give me my sugar back and I can start growing again. You give me -- like, I want wind, birds, chipmunks Like, I'm not, like, your sound puppet here. And moved around, but always matched in the same way together. You know, it goes back to anthropomorphizing plant behaviors. 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! ], [ROY HALLING: Matt Kielty, Robert Krulwich, Annie McEwen, Andy Mills, Latif Nasser, Malissa O'Donnell. Ring, meat, eat. So they didn't. 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. 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. It's almost as if these plants -- it's almost as if they know where our pipes are. MONICA GAGLIANO: Again, if you imagine that the pot, my experimental pot. The plants have to keep pulling their leaves up and they just get tired. MONICA GAGLIANO: A plant that is quite far away from the actual pipe. 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 still remembered. They learned something. Don't interrupt. ROBERT: Oh, so it says to the newer, the healthier trees, "Here's my food. And why would -- why would the fungi want to make this network? Are you bringing the plant parade again? Yeah. ROBERT: So let's go to the first. You have a forest, you have mushrooms. So it wasn't touching the dirt at all. Yes, we don't normally ascribe intelligence to plants, and plants are not thought to have brains. They're some other kind of category. ROBERT: Give it to the new -- well, that's what she saying. JENNIFER FRAZER: So there's these little insects that lives in the soil, these just adorable little creatures called springtails. She's not gonna use hot water because you don't want to cook your plants, you know? Fan first, light after. 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. We're just learning about them now, and they're so interesting. Then she takes the little light and the little fan and moves them to the other side of the plant. Picasso! ROBERT: So now, they had the radioactive particles inside their trunks and their branches. Like, I say, it's early in the season. They shade each other out. Except in this case instead of a chair, they've got a little plant-sized box. MONICA GAGLIANO: My reaction was, "Oh ****!" This -- this actually happened to me. ], Our fact-checkers are Eva Dasher and Michelle Harris. So they didn't. This way there is often more questions than answers, but that's part of the fun as well. So now, they had the radioactive particles inside their trunks and their branches. Landing very comfortably onto a padded base made of foam. Same as the Pavlov. Like, if you put food into one tree over here, it would end up in another tree maybe 30 feet away over there, and then a third tree over here, and then a fourth tree over there, and a fifth tree over there. They have to -- have to edit in this together. Or maybe slower? Can you make your own food? There's not a leak in the glass. You know, it goes back to anthropomorphizing plant behaviors. The water is still in there. Just the sound of it? MONICA GAGLIANO: Light is obviously representing dinner. LATIF: It's like a bank? The same one that are used in computers like, you know, really tiny. They can't take up CO2. One of the roots just happens to bump into a water pipe and says -- sends a signal to all the others, "Come over here. All right, my hypothesis is that what happens is You got somewhere to go? And the fungus actually builds a tunnel inside the rock. ROBERT: 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. The part where the water pipe was, the pipe was on the outside of the pot? 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