Radiolab is supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, enhancing public understanding of science and technology in the modern world. But also SUZANNE SIMARD: The other important thing we figured out is that, as those trees are injured and dying, they'll dump their carbon into their neighbors. And so of course, that was only the beginning. JAD: Where would the -- a little plant even store a memory? And the -- I'm gonna mix metaphors here, the webs it weaves. You're doing the -- like, okay first it was the roots under the ground all connected into a whole hive thing. I'm 84. And she says she began to notice things that, you know, one wouldn't really expect. ROBERT: And then those little tubes will wrap themselves into place. ROBERT: After three days of this training regime, it is now time to test the plants with just the fan, no light. What is it? ], [JENNIFER FRAZER: Soren Wheeler is Senior Editor. So no plants were actually hurt in this experiment. MONICA GAGLIANO: My reaction was, "Oh ****!" 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. And again. So they didn't. And all of a sudden, one of them says, "Oh, oh, oh, oh! MONICA GAGLIANO: The idea was to drop them again just to see, like, the difference between the first time you learn something and the next time. ROBERT: And we dropped it once and twice. So after much trial and error with click and hums and buzzes She found that the one stimulus that would be perfect was A little fan. Well, okay. Robert, I have -- you know what? It's almost as if the forest is acting as an organism itself. Turns the fan on, turns the light on, and the plant turns and leans that way. ROBERT: All right, never mind. ROBERT: So the plants are now, you know, buckled in, minding their own business. It's almost as if these plants -- it's almost as if they know where our pipes are. Which by the way, is definitely not a plant. ROBERT: Connecting your house to the main city water line that's in the middle of the street. Radiolab is supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, enhancing public understanding of Science and Technology in the modern world. I have even -- I can go better than even that. 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. 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 . 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. I mean, it's -- like, when a plant bends toward sunlight. The plants -- the plants stopped -- what is it they did? Would just suck up through photosynthesis. JENNIFER FRAZER: Finally, one time he did not bring the meat, but he rang the bell. And you don't see it anywhere. So this Wood Wide Web, is this just, like, the roots? He's the only springtail with a trench coat and a fedora. Well, it depends on who you ask. Do you really need a brain to sense the world around you? I gotta say, doing this story, this is the part that knocked me silly. I remember going in at the uni on a Sunday afternoon. 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. 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. ROBERT: And this? Different kind of signal traveling through the soil? Okay? We dropped. That's okay. I can scream my head off if I want to. Can Robert get Jad to join the march? And she wondered whether that was true. They definitely don't have a brain. ROBERT: Let me just back up for a second so that you can -- to set the scene for you. ROBERT: So you just did what Pavlov did to a plant. We've all seen houseplants do that, right? And she goes into that darkened room with all the pea plants. Jennifer told Latif and I about another role that these fungi play. I'm sorry? I don't know. They run out of energy. And if you go to too many rock concerts, you can break these hairs and that leads to permanent hearing loss, which is bad. ROY HALLING: So there's an oak tree right there. But I wonder if her using these metaphors 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. [laughs]. ROBERT: They stopped folding up. Monica thought about that and designed a different experiment. I am the blogger of The Artful Amoeba at Scientific American. Five, four, three, two, one, drop! RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH: It's the equivalent of a human being jumping over the Eiffel Tower. And lignin is full of nitrogen, but also compounds like nitrogen is important in DNA, right? So the -- this branching pot thing. ROBERT: Let us say you have a yard in front of your house. Like the bell for the dog. The whole thing immediately closes up and makes it look like, "Oh, there's no plant here. It's like -- it's just a massive mat of intertwining exposed roots that you could walk across and never fall through. He's not a huge fan of. /locations/california/culver-city/5399-sepulveda-blvd-bank-atm/ No. So maybe the root hairs, which are always found right at the growing tips of plant roots, maybe plant roots are like little ears. ROY HALLING: Well, you can see the white stuff is the fungus. Maybe not with the helmet, but yeah. JAD: That is cool. SUZANNE SIMARD: And there was a lot of skepticism at the time. ROBERT: So the deer's like, "Oh, well. Good. Every one of them. And if you don't have one, by default you can't do much in general. Except in this case instead of a chair, they've got a little plant-sized box. 2016. So she decided to conduct her experiment. And it's more expensive. JAD: Yeah, and hopefully not be liquefied by the fungus beneath us. Little white threads attached to the roots. 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? So there seemed to be, under the ground, this fungal freeway system connecting one tree to the next to the next to the next. Her use of metaphor. JAD: Is it just pulling it from the soil? She's working in the timber industry at the time. And it was almost like, let's see how much I have to stretch it here before you forget. And we saw this in the Bronx. And I need a bird, a lot of birds, actually. Just for example Let's say it's -- times are good. Me first. SUZANNE SIMARD: Potassium and calcium and ROBERT: Like, can a tree stand up straight without minerals? JAD: It was curling each time when it ROBERT: Every time. And so I don't have a problem with that. And Roy by the way, comes out with this strange -- it's like a rake. ROBERT: Begins with a woman. And it was almost like, let's see how much I have to stretch it here before you forget. So the fungus is giving the tree the minerals. 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. ROBERT: Oh! ROBERT: So after much trial and error with click and hums and buzzes MONICA GAGLIANO: All sorts of randomness. The little threads just wrapping themselves around the tree roots. And so we, you know, we've identified these as kind of like hubs in the network. 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, . ROBERT: But she's got a little red headlamp on. ROBERT: So we strapped in our mimosa plant. 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. ROBERT: Peering down at the plants under the red glow of her headlamp. 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. ALVIN UBELL: The tree will wrap its roots around that pipe. ROBERT: So you can -- you can see this is like a game of telephone. Instead of eating the fungus, it turns out the fungus ate them. Just for example. They would salivate and then eat the meat. There are multiple ways of doing one thing, right? MONICA GAGLIANO: Landing very comfortably onto a padded base made of foam. How much longer? I thought -- I thought tree roots just sort of did -- like, I thought -- I always imagined tree roots were kind of like straws. And so they have this trading system with trees. I'm a research associate professor at the University of Sydney. ROBERT: But it has, like, an expandable ROBERT: Oh, it's an -- oh, listen to that! AATISH BHATIA: So this is our plant dropper. SUZANNE SIMARD: Like, nitrogen and phosphorus. ROBERT: They're father and son. But Monica says what she does do is move around the world with a general feeling of What if? So maybe the root hairs, which are always found right at the growing tips of plant roots, maybe plant roots are like little ears. Wait a second. I remember going in at the uni on a Sunday afternoon. Sorry! ROBERT: 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. ROBERT: So there is some water outside of the pipe. All right. Wilderness Radio. Oh! So that's where these -- the scientists from Princeton come in: Peter, Sharon and Aatish. AATISH BHATIA: So this is our plant dropper. And every day that goes by, I have less of an issue from the day before. They curve, sometimes they branch. LARRY UBELL: Yeah, and I have done inspections where roots were coming up through the pipe into the house. Turns the fan on, turns the light on, and the plant turns and leans that way. The light and the fan were always coming from the same direction. ], [ROY HALLING: With help from Alexandra Leigh Young, Jackson Roach and Charu Sinha. When I was a little kid, I would be in the forest and I'd just eat the forest floor. Nothing happened at all. Of Accurate Building Inspectors. 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. ROBERT: But then, scientists did an experiment where they gave some springtails some fungus to eat. The plants have to keep pulling their leaves up and they just get tired. Because the only reason why the experiment turned out to be 28 days is because I ran out of time. It was like, Oh, I might disturb my plants!" PETER LANDGREN: Little seatbelt for him for the ride down. AATISH BHATIA: This feels one of those experiments where you just abort it on humanitarian grounds, you know? Yours is back of your house, but let's make it in the front. You know, it goes back to anthropomorphizing plant behaviors. Image credits: Photo Credit: Flickred! And they're digging and digging and digging. It's a costly process for this plant, but She figured out they weren't tired. I'm 84. ALVIN UBELL: And the tree happens to be a weeping willow. They're father and son. ROBERT: 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. When you go into a forest, you see a tree, a tall tree. Why is this network even there? More information about Sloan at www.sloan.org]. JENNIFER FRAZER: So what do we have in our ears that we use to hear sound? MONICA GAGLIANO: Picasso! How does it know which way to turn and grow its roots so that it can find the water? So -- so carbon will move from that dying tree. Actually, Monica's dog leads perfectly into her third experiment, which again will be with a plant. Does it threaten my sense of myself or my place as a human that a plant can do this? So today we have a triptych of experiments about plants. 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. And so the whole family and uncles and aunts and cousins, we all rush up there. ROBERT: We, as you know, built your elevator. But then ROY HALLING: Finally! 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. Okay. The magnolia tree outside of our house got into the sewer pipes, reached its tentacles into our house and busted the sewage pipe. Like what she saw in the outhouse? Imagine towering trees to your left and to your right. Because what she does next is three days later, she takes these plants back into the lab. I don't know why you have problems with this. ROBERT: All right, that's it, I think. Can Robert get Jad tojoin the march? ], Radiolab was created by Jad Abumrad and is produced by Soren Wheeler. So after the first few, the plants already realized that that was not necessary. Well, some of them can first of all, and big deal. Coming up on the Plant Parade, we get to the heart -- or better yet, the root -- of a very specific type of plant. What is the tree giving back to the fungus? JAD: And the plant still went to the place where the pipe was not even in the dirt? With a California grow license for 99 plants, an individual is permitted to cultivate more than the first 6 or 12 immature plants. It's kind of like a cold glass sitting on your desk and there's always a puddle at the bottom. They remembered what had happened three days before, that dropping didn't hurt, that they didn't have to fold up. She took that notion out of the garden into her laboratory. In my brain. 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. JAD: And to Annie McEwen and Brenna Farrow who both produced this piece. Because after dropping them 60 times, she then shook them left to right and they instantly folded up again. ROBERT: What kind of creature is this thing? She took that notion out of the garden into her laboratory. 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. ROBERT: And then she waited a few more days and came back. 0:00. Like the bell for the dog. ROBERT: But Monica says what she does do is move around the world with a general feeling of ROBERT: What if? Oh, so it says to the newer, the healthier trees, "Here's my food. ROBERT: So they followed the sound of the barking and it leads them to an outhouse. Jigs is in trouble!" She thinks that they somehow remembered all those drops and it never hurt, so they didn't fold up any more. Then she takes the little light and the little fan and moves them to the other side of the plant. JAD: And the plant still went to the place where the pipe was not even in the dirt? And so I designed this experiment to figure that out. 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. My reaction was, "Oh ****!" And moved around, but always matched in the same way together. I mean, I think there's something to that. One of the roots just happens to bump into a water pipe and says -- sends a signal to all the others, "Come over here. Never mind.". But what -- how would a plant hear something? MONICA GAGLIANO: Picasso, enough of that now. He shoves away the leaves, he shoves away the topsoil. ROBERT: Peering down at the plants under the red glow of her headlamp. In my brain. Like, how can a plant -- how does a plant do that? And so I don't have a problem with that. And they still remembered. So you can -- you can see this is like a game of telephone. However, if that's all they had was carbon ROBERT: That's Roy again. Into which she put these sensitive plants. LATIF: It's like a bank? You give me -- like, I want wind, birds, chipmunks Like, I'm not, like, your sound puppet here. MONICA GAGLIANO: Again, if you imagine that the pot, my experimental pot. If a nosy deer happens to bump into it, the mimosa plant Curls all its leaves up against its stem. So they figured out who paid for the murder. He uses it to train his border www.npr.org Before you begin to think that this is weird science, stop. They can't photosynthesize. ROBERT: Yeah. So that's where these -- the scientists from Princeton come in: Peter, Sharon and Aatish. So the plants are now, you know, buckled in, minding their own business. The water is still in there. ROBERT: That's a -- learning is something I didn't think plants could do. That there was a kind of a moral objection to thinking it this way. 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. 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. MONICA GAGLIANO: Exactly. MONICA GAGLIANO: I created these horrible contraptions. And the tree happens to be a weeping willow. So maybe the root hairs, which are always found right at the growing tips of plant roots, maybe plant roots are like little ears. 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. The roots of this tree of course can go any way they want to go. ROBERT: Nothing happened at all. JENNIFER FRAZER: It's definitely crazy. I was like, "Oh, my God! I mean again, it's a tree. It'd be all random. Close. Peering down at the plants under the red glow of her headlamp. Are you bringing the plant parade again? 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." And it can reach these little packets of minerals and mine them. Handheld? Actually that's good advice for anyone. SUZANNE SIMARD: It'll go, "Ick. Like, the tree was, like, already doing that stuff by itself, but it's the fungus that's doing that stuff? They shade each other out. But maybe it makes her sort of more open-minded than -- than someone who's just looking at a notebook. I mean, it's -- like, when a plant bends toward sunlight. Radiolab is supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, enhancing public understanding of Science and Technology in the modern world. 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? And she was willing to entertain the possibility that plants can do something like hear. These guys are actually doing it." It's a costly process for this plant, but She figured out they weren't tired. MONICA GAGLIANO: The idea was to drop them again just to see, like, the difference between the first time you learn something and the next time. And moved around, but always matched in the same way together. And again. A tree needs something else. 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. Testing one, two. Finally, one time he did not bring the meat, but he rang the bell. [ASHLEY: Hi. ROBERT: And for the meat substitute, she gave each plant little bit of food. ROBERT: So let's go to the first. Pretty much like the concept of Pavlov with his dog applied. No, it's because it's like every time I close my eyes, you're coming at it from a different direction. No, it's far more exciting than that. Handheld? The bell, the meat and the salivation. If I want to be a healthy tree and reach for the sky, then I need -- I need rocks in me somehow. JENNIFER FRAZER: Yeah. LINCOLN TAIZ: It's a very interesting experiment, and I really want to see whether it's correct or not. Or even learn? They still remembered. And we can move it up, and we can drop it. I mean, I -- it's a kind of Romanticism, I think. MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah, I know. Sugar. 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 lignin is full of nitrogen, but also compounds like nitrogen is important in DNA, right? I think there are some cases where romanticizing something could possibly lead you to some interesting results. With when they actually saw and smelled and ate meat. 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. 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. 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. ROBERT: That is actually a clue in what turns out to be a deep, deep mystery. Or even learn? 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.". And what we found was that the trees that were the biggest and the oldest were the most highly connected. ROBERT: The fungus were literally sucking the nitrogen out of the springtails, and it was too late to get away. 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. More information about Sloan at www.sloan.org]. ROBERT: Again, science writer Jennifer Frazer. The light and the fan were always coming from the same direction. 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. Like the bell for the dog. I don't want that.". ROBERT: And she goes into that darkened room with all the pea plants. ROBERT: Monica's work has actually gotten quite a bit of attention from other plant biologists. All right. This is the headphones? Each one an ounce, an ounce, an ounce, an ounce, an ounce. No question there. SUZANNE SIMARD: He was a, not a wiener dog. 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. Like, two percent or 0.00000001 percent? Radiolab is supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, enhancing public understanding of science and technology in the modern world. 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. My name is Monica Gagliano. They're not experiencing extra changes, for example. I mean, to say that a plant is choosing a direction, I don't know. Here's the water.". So you are related and you're both in the plumbing business? And it's more expensive. Today, Robert drags Jad along ona parade for the surprising feats of brainless plants. However, if that's all they had was carbon That's Roy again. And I wanted to talk to them because, as building inspectors they -- there's something they see over and over and over. JAD: So you couldn't replicate what she saw. And they, you know, they push each other away so they can get to the sky. MONICA GAGLIANO: Picasso! 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. If a plant doesn't have a brain what is choosing where to go? Listen to Radiolab: Smarty Plants, an episode of Wilderness Radio, easily on Podbay - the best podcast player on the web. ALVIN UBELL: In a tangling of spaghetti-like, almost a -- and each one of those lines of spaghetti is squeezing a little bit. 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. To remember? So what does the tree do? Because tree roots and a lot of plant roots are not actually very good at doing what you think they're doing. ROBERT: And Monica wondered in the plant's case MONICA GAGLIANO: If there was only the fan, would the plant ROBERT: Anticipate the light and lean toward it? Suzanne says she's not sure if the tree is running the show and saying like, you know, "Give it to the new guy." Do you have the lens? So otherwise they can't photosynthesize. As abundant as what was going on above ground. ROBERT: Yeah. They were actually JENNIFER FRAZER: Tubes. 37:51. And when they go in SUZANNE SIMARD: There is Jigs at the bottom of the outhouse, probably six feet down at the bottom of the outhouse pit. LARRY UBELL: It's not leaking. So I don't have a problem. ], Dylan Keefe is our Director of Sound Design. He's looking up at us quite scared and very unhappy that he was covered in SUZANNE SIMARD: And toilet paper. LARRY UBELL: You got somewhere to go? The fungus has this incredible network of tubes that it's able to send out through the soil, and draw up water and mineral nutrients that the tree needs. Absolutely not. It's not leaking. LARRY UBELL: I'm not giving my age. They play with sound and story in a way that's incredibly intriguing, I was instantly hooked with More Perfect. ROBERT: Science writer Jen Frazer gave us the kind of the standard story. 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. So you think that that this -- you think this is a hubris corrector? Princeton University News Transformations: Students find creativity at intersection of art and engineering. ], [ROY HALLING: Radiolab is produced by Jad Abumrad. Support Radiolab today at Radiolab.org/donate. And I do that in my brain. MONICA GAGLIANO: Like a defensive mechanism. Let me just back up for a second so that you can -- to set the scene for you. ROBERT: So here's what she did. ], Dylan Keefe is our Director of Sound Design. We were waiting for the leaves to, you know, stop folding. Wait a second. JENNIFER FRAZER: Or it could be like, "Okay, I'm not doing so well, so I'm gonna hide this down here in my ceiling.". If you get too wrapped up in your poetic metaphor, you're very likely to be misled and to over-interpret the data. ]. And 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. And all of a sudden, one of them says, "Oh, oh, oh, oh! 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. ROBERT: All right, that's it, I think. 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. It's not leaking. LARRY UBELL: We are the principals of Accurate Building Inspectors of Brooklyn, New York. This peculiar plant has a -- has a surprising little skill. Fan, light, lean. I think if I move on to the next experiment from Monica, you're going to find it a little bit harder to object to it. And I've been in the construction industry ever since I'm about 16 years old. And so they have this trading system with trees. 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 wonder if that was maybe a bit too much. 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. It's gone. Like trees of different species are supposed to fight each other for sunshine, right? Of the tree's sugar goes down to the mushroom team? In my brain. 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