MONICA GAGLIANO: Like for example, my plants were all in environment-controlled rooms, which is not a minor detail. And then all the other ones go in the same direction. They definitely don't have a brain. JAD: If a plant doesn't have a brain what is choosing where to go? 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? 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. ROBERT: So these trees were basically covered with bags that were then filled with radioactive gas. So here's what she did. It's a -- it's a three-pronged answer. Me first. 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. It'd be all random. So this Wood Wide Web, is this just, like, the roots? They need light to grow. 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. My name is Monica Gagliano. ROBERT: Fan, light, lean. And then I would cover them in plastic bags. 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. You should definitely go out and check out her blog, The Artful Amoeba, especially to the posts, the forlorn ones about plants. Sugar. MONICA GAGLIANO: I purposely removed the chance for a moisture gradient. Little seatbelt for him for the ride down. ROBERT: And she was willing to entertain the possibility that plants can do something like hear. He's got lots of questions about her research methods, but really his major complaint is -- is her language. The bell, the meat and the salivation. Does it threaten your sense of humanity that you depend for pretty much every single calorie you eat on a plant? ROBERT: She says a timber company would move in and clear cut an entire patch of forest, and then plant some new trees. It was like -- it was like a huge network. This feels one of those experiments where you just abort it on humanitarian grounds, you know? ROBERT: So I think what she would argue is that we kind of proved her point. ALVIN UBELL: The glass is not broken. SUZANNE SIMARD: Into the roots, and then into the microbial community, which includes the mushroom team, yeah. JENNIFER FRAZER: Yeah. ", ROBERT: So the deer's like, "Oh, well. Enough of that! 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." ], Maria Matasar-Padilla is our Managing Director. ROBERT: This is the fungus. If you have this kind of license, then you are only allowed to grow up to that certain height; if . But instead of dogs, she had pea plants in a dark room. 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. 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?". I purposely removed the chance for a moisture gradient. I'll put it down in my fungi. Do you really need a brain to sense the world around you? Smarty Plants. Like, I say, it's early in the season. So she takes the plants, she puts them into the parachute drop, she drops them. And the classic case of this is if you go back a few centuries ago, someone noticed that plants have sex. It's like a savings account? LATIF: It's like a bank? No. It's like, no, no, I don't do that. It was a simple little experiment. Five, four, three, two, one, drop! 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. [laughs]. ], [ROY HALLING: Jamie York is our Senior Producer. ROBERT: 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. And it's more expensive. And I do that in my brain. We were so inconsistent, so clumsy, that the plants were smart to keep playing it safe and closing themselves up. Picasso! 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 curve, sometimes they branch. ], [JENNIFER FRAZER: Our staff includes Simon Adler, Becca Bressler, Rachael Cusick ], [ALVIN UBELL: David -- David Gebel. He's looking up at us quite scared and very unhappy that he was covered in SUZANNE SIMARD: And toilet paper. I mean again, it's a tree. Pics! 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. I can scream my head off if I want to. You got the plant to associate the fan with food. Isn't that what you do? And the plant still went to the place where the pipe was not even in the dirt? SUZANNE SIMARD: We're sitting on the exposed root system, which is like -- it is like a mat. But still. I don't know. With when they actually saw and smelled and ate meat. More information about Sloan at www.sloan.org]. 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. I'm 84. SUZANNE SIMARD: Basically expanding it from a kind of a column of a pit to something that's -- we could actually grab onto his front legs and pull him out. [laughs] When I write a blog post, my posts that get the least traffic guaranteed are the plant posts. LARRY UBELL: I'm not giving my age. Or even learn? Inspector Tail is his name. 36:59. Ring, meat, eat. And it's more expensive. "I'm under attack!". And he starts digging with his rake at the base of this tree. That's the place where I remember things. They can go north, south, east, west, whatever. Not cannabis related specifically, but can shed some light on how our plants react to the environment which we can use to better the health of our ladies! It's a family business. It's almost as if these plants -- it's almost as if they know where our pipes are. ROBERT: And she goes into that darkened room with all the pea plants. ROBERT: What kind of creature is this thing? It's like a bank? No, it's because it's like every time I close my eyes, you're coming at it from a different direction. ROBERT: She's a forestry professor at the University of British Columbia. When you go into a forest, you see a tree, a tall tree. People speculated about this, but no one had actually proved it in nature in the woods until Suzanne shows up. I am the blogger of The Artful Amoeba at Scientific American. This assignment pairs with the RadioLab podcast; specifically the Smarty Plants episode. MONICA GAGLIANO: Exactly, which is pretty amazing. I found a little water! It was like, "Oh, I might disturb my plants!" Huh. Because the only reason why the experiment turned out to be 28 days is because I ran out of time. Pulled out a is that a root of some sort? SUZANNE SIMARD: Would just suck up through photosynthesis. This way there is often more questions than answers, but that's part of the fun as well. [laughs]. ROBERT: But that day with the roots is the day that she began thinking about the forest that exists underneath the forest. SUZANNE SIMARD: So we know that Douglas fir will take -- a dying Douglas fir will send carbon to a neighboring Ponderosa pine. Pics! They start producing chemicals that taste really bad. I guess you could call it a mimosa plant drop box. 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. JENNIFER FRAZER: Finally, one time he did not bring the meat, but he rang the bell. So they just went right for the MP3 fake water, not even the actual water? However, if that's all they had was carbon That's Roy again. 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. Give it to the new -- well, that's what she saying. 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. I go out and I thought there's no one here on Sunday afternoon. The light and the fan were always coming from the same direction. JAD: So we're up to experiment two now, are we not? JAD: The plants -- the plants stopped -- what is it they did? Two very different options for our plant. ROBERT: And the salivation equivalent was the tilt of the plant? 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. Yeah. And all of a sudden, one of them says, "Oh, oh, oh, oh! And then what happens? Parsons' Observational Practices Lab Talking About Seeing Symposium. JENNIFER FRAZER: The whole thing immediately closes up and makes it look like, "Oh, there's no plant here. So maybe could you just describe it just briefly just what you did? ], Matt Kielty, Robert Krulwich, Annie McEwen, Andy Mills, Latif Nasser, Malissa O'Donnell. And when you measure them, like one study we saw found up to seven miles of this little threading What is this thing? She's not gonna use hot water because you don't want to cook your plants, you know? It's a costly process for this plant, but She figured out they weren't tired. Today, Robert drags Jad along on a parade for the surprising feats of brainless plants. 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. Can you make your own food? They're called feeder roots. I'm a research associate professor at the University of Sydney. Right? If she's going to do this experiment, most likely she's going to use cold water. There was a healthier community when they were mixed and I wanted to figure out why. So you -- if you would take away the fish, the trees would be, like, blitzed. You got somewhere to go? And so I designed this experiment to figure that out. And the tree gets the message, and it sends a message back and says, "Yeah, I can do that.". ROBERT: And when you look at the map, what you see are circles sprouting lines and then connecting to other circles also sprouting lines. And every day that goes by, I have less of an issue from the day before. Now the plants if they were truly dumb, they'd go 50/50. They learned something. ROBERT: And for the meat substitute, she gave each plant little bit of food. JAD: Wait. So I don't have a problem. MONICA GAGLIANO: Like a defensive mechanism. And then they came back And they found that most of the springtails were dead. So Pavlov started by getting some dogs and some meat and a bell. Oh, hunting for water. Little fan goes on, little light goes on, both aiming at the pea plant from the same direction. She says we now know that trees give each other loans. And for a long time, they were thought of as plants. 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. They're not experiencing extra changes, for example. People speculated about this, but no one had actually proved it in nature in the woods until Suzanne shows up. JAD: That apparently -- jury's still out -- are going to make me rethink my stance on plants. But let me just -- let me give it a try. In the podcast episode Smarty Plants, the hosts talk about whether or not you need a brain to sense the world around you; they shared a few different anecdotes, . Fan, light, lean. Fan, light, lean. The next one goes, "Uh-oh." And not too far away from this tree, underground, there is a water pipe. Nothing happened at all. Ring, meat, eat. And is it as dramatic in the opposite direction? There was some kind of benefit from the birch to the fur. This is the headphones? It's okay, puppy. LARRY UBELL: Yeah, and I have done inspections where roots were coming up through the pipe into the house. Couple minutes go by SUZANNE SIMARD: And all of a sudden we could hear this barking and yelping. ROBERT: But Monica says what she does do is move around the world with a general feeling of ROBERT: What if? What a fungus does is it -- it hunts, it mines, it fishes, and it strangles. But white, translucent and hairy, sort of. And it begins to look a lot like an airline flight map, but even more dense. And she says this time they relaxed almost immediately. And we were all like, "Oh, my goodness! So light is -- if you shine light on a plant you're, like, feeding it? MONICA GAGLIANO: Exactly. Like, the plant is hunting? ROBERT: So there is some water outside of the pipe. The point here is that the scale of this is so vast, and we didn't know this until very, very recently. And the pea plant leans toward them. On the outside of the pipe. Well, 25 percent of it ended up in the tree. Never mind.". Yeah, and hopefully not be liquefied by the fungus beneath us. Every time. I don't want that.". ROBERT: 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. ROBERT: And she goes into that darkened room with all the pea plants. ], Dylan Keefe is our Director of Sound Design. Nothing delicious at all.". So that voice belongs to Aatish Bhatia, who is with Princeton University's Council on Science and Technology. So it's predicting something to arrive. Is it ROBERT: This is like metaphor is letting in the light as opposed to shutting down the blinds. I think there are some cases where romanticizing something could possibly lead you to some interesting results. And I do that in my brain. And they, you know, they push each other away so they can get to the sky. Playing via SpotifyPlaying via YouTube Playback options Listening on Switch Spotify device Open in Spotify Web Player JAD: The plants have to keep pulling their leaves up and they just get tired. If you get too wrapped up in your poetic metaphor, you're very likely to be misled and to over-interpret the data. MONICA GAGLIANO: Landing very comfortably onto a padded base made of foam. This story JAD: You'll get your sound at some point. Why waste hot water? Pretty much like the concept of Pavlov with his dog applied. The Ubells see this happening all the time. Science writer Jen Frazer gave us the kind of the standard story. So she decided to conduct her experiment. 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: And I wanted to talk to them because, as building inspectors they -- there's something they see over and over and over. 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. Image credits: Photo Credit: Flickred! We waiting for the leaves to, you know, stop folding. Radiolab is supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, enhancing public understanding of Science and Technology in the modern world. 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. That is definitely cool. No, Summer is a real person and her last name happens to be spelled R-A-Y-N-E. ROBERT: This story was nurtured and fed and ultimately produced by Annie McEwen. Actually that's good advice for anyone. LARRY UBELL: Good. He's not a huge fan of. Same as the Pavlov. ROBERT: Let me just back up for a second so that you can -- to set the scene for you. So there seemed to be, under the ground, this fungal freeway system connecting one tree to the next to the next to the next. And so they have this trading system with trees. What was your reaction when you saw this happen? They're switched on. Yes. JENNIFER FRAZER: And then they did experiments with the same fungus that I'm telling you about that was capturing the springtails, and they hooked it up to a tree. I was like, "Oh, my God! ROBERT: And with these two stimuli, she put the plants, the little pea plants through a kind of training regime. Okay. Let him talk. Like, can a tree stand up straight without minerals? Fan, light, lean. Wait. I mean, I think there's something to that. ROBERT: The Ubells see this happening all the time. 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. ROBERT: No, no, no, no, no. So she decided to conduct her experiment. ROBERT: 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. Thud. Me first. Gone. Like, they don't have ears or a brain or anything like, they couldn't hear like we hear. Monica says what she does do is move around the world with a general feeling of What if? 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. SUZANNE SIMARD: Not a basset hound, but he was a beagle. It's like a savings account? Is your dog objecting to my analysis? Begins with a woman. Actually, Monica's dog leads perfectly into her third experiment, which again will be with a plant. ROBERT: Huh. LARRY UBELL: You got somewhere to go? Isn't -- doesn't -- don't professors begin to start falling out of chairs when that word gets used regarding plants? So ROBERT: He says something about that's the wrong season. Fan, light, lean. It's condensation. And again. They were actually JENNIFER FRAZER: Tubes. And of course we had to get Jigs out. Oh, one more thing. SUZANNE SIMARD: It's just this incredible communications network that, you know, people had no idea about in the past, because we couldn't -- didn't know how to look. Handheld? They may have this intelligence, maybe we're just not smart enough yet to figure it out. 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 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. Little white threads attached to the roots. Monica thought about that and designed a different experiment. So we're up to experiment two now, are we not? JAD: Well, okay. Because I have an appointment. Well, maybe. 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's what she says. It is like a bank! And it's good it was Sunday. View SmartyPlantsRadioLab Transcript (2).docx from CHEM 001A at Pasadena City College. I thought okay, so this is just stupid. Oh, yeah. I gotta say, doing this story, this is the part that knocked me silly. What do mean, the fungi will give me my sugar back? And you can actually see this happen. So it's predicting something to arrive. And what a tree needs are minerals. MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah. Monica thought about that and designed a different experiment. LINCOLN TAIZ: I think you can be open-minded but still objective. They sort of put them all together in a dish, and then they walked away. No, so for example, lignin is important for making a tree stand up straight. I wonder if that was maybe a bit too much. And it's that little, little bit of moisture that the plant will somehow sense. All right, that's it, I think. And they still remembered. LATIF: It's like Snow White and The Seven Tubes or something. And after not a whole lot of drops, the plant, she noticed, stopped closing its leaves. He's looking up at us quite scared and very unhappy that he was covered in And toilet paper. These guys are actually doing it." What's its job? But we are in the home inspection business. 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. 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. Hobbled, really. 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. JENNIFER FRAZER: This all has a history, of course. ROBERT: I don't think Monica knows the answer to that, but she does believe that, you know, that we humans MONICA GAGLIANO: We are a little obsessed with the brain. LARRY UBELL: We are the principals of Accurate Building Inspectors of Brooklyn, New York. ROBERT: So you just did what Pavlov did to a plant. I mean, you're out there in the forest and you see all these trees, and you think they're individuals just like animals, right? And it can reach these little packets of minerals and mine them. JENNIFER FRAZER: Anyone who's ever had a plant in a window knows that. JAD: Where would the -- a little plant even store a memory? 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. JAD: Wait a second. And ROBERT: Since he was so deep down in there. Smaller than an eyelash. Or maybe it's the fungus under the ground is kind of like a broker and decides who gets what. A little while back, I had a rather boisterous conversation with these two guys. JAD: So you couldn't replicate what she saw. Along with a home-inspection duo, a science writer, and some enterprising . So I don't have a problem. Reviews. And so I don't have a problem with that. We're sitting on the exposed root system, which is like -- it is like a mat. I was, like, floored. He's the only springtail with a trench coat and a fedora. And all of a sudden, one of them says, "Oh, oh, oh, oh! 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. In 1997, a couple of scientists wrote a paper which describes how fungi JENNIFER FRAZER: Have developed a system for mining. ROBERT: Sounds, yeah. Same as the Pavlov. My reaction was like, "Oh ****!" And so of course, that was only the beginning. They have to -- have to edit in this together. Me first. There are multiple ways of doing one thing, right? No question there. Ring, meat, eat. ROBERT: All right, that's it, I think. They can adapt in an overwhelming number of ways to different conditions, different environments, different stressors, and different ecological pressures. And if you go to too many rock concerts, you can break these hairs and that leads to permanent hearing loss, which is bad. MONICA GAGLIANO: Like a defensive mechanism. Then she takes the little light and the little fan and moves them to the other side of the plant. Thud. Like a human would. It was magic for me. Or No. JENNIFER FRAZER: If you look at these particles under the microscope, you can see the little tunnels. LARRY UBELL: All right, if she's going to do this experiment, most likely she's going to use cold water. JAD: It was curling each time when it ROBERT: Every time. Or maybe slower? [ENRIQUE: This is Enrique Romero from the bordertown of Laredo, Texas. One tree goes "Uh-oh." I've been looking around lately, and I know that intelligence is not unique to humans. Same as the Pavlov. No. But no, they're all linked to each other! They would salivate and then eat the meat. And they, you know, they push each other away so they can get to the sky. And she says this time they relaxed almost immediately. In this story, a dog introduces us to a strange creature that burrows . ALVIN UBELL: You have to understand that the cold water pipe causes even a small amount of water to condense on the pipe itself. They all went closed. 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. Maybe each root is -- is like a little ear for the plant. 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. So the -- this branching pot thing. And again. And again. Again. She's not gonna use hot water because you don't want to cook your plants, you know? How does it know which way to turn and grow its roots so that it can find the water? It was summertime. And we dropped it once and twice. And the salivation equivalent was the tilt of the plant? So the plants are now, you know, buckled in, minding their own business. ROBERT: And then those little tubes will wrap themselves into place. I don't know yet. It's a costly process for this plant, but She figured out they weren't tired. Can Robert get Jad to join the march? Okay? JENNIFER FRAZER: And this is what makes it even more gruesome. And so we're up there in this -- in this old forest with this guy. There was a healthier community when they were mixed and I wanted to figure out why. [ASHLEY: Hi. by Radiolab Follow. And I mean, like, really loved the outdoors. So I don't have an issue with that. It's gone. You mean you got down on all fours and just SUZANNE SIMARD: Yeah, I would just eat the dirt. ], [ALVIN UBELL: Our fact-checker is Michelle Harris. This is not so good" signal through the network. 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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