ROBERT: So we strapped in our mimosa plant. JENNIFER FRAZER: Plants are really underrated. So you're like a metaphor cop with a melty heart. Start of message. Radiolab is supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, enhancing public understanding of Science and Technology in the modern world. Well, it depends on who you ask. Now the plants if they were truly dumb they'd go 50/50. 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, . You have a forest, you have mushrooms. 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. I mean, Jigs was part of the family. Give it to the new -- well, that's what she saying. JENNIFER FRAZER: So what do we have in our ears that we use to hear sound? And the tree happens to be a weeping willow. When you go into a forest, you see a tree, a tall tree. JENNIFER FRAZER: This all has a history, of course. This way there is often more questions than answers, but that's part of the fun as well. I guess you could call it a mimosa plant drop box. SUZANNE SIMARD: Yes, that seems to be what happens. 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 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. No, Summer is a real person and her last name happens to be spelled R-A-Y-N-E. I know. Here's the water.". ROBERT: All right, that's it, I think. It should have some. 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. Connecting your house to the main city water line that's in the middle of the street. LARRY UBELL: It's kind of like a cold glass sitting on your desk and there's always a puddle at the bottom. In this case, a little blue LED light. I was, like, floored. We dropped. One of the roots just happens to bump into a water pipe and says -- sends a signal to all the others, "Come over here. Like, from the trees perspective, how much of their sugar are they giving to the fungus? Apparently, she built some sort of apparatus. And then someone has to count. LARRY UBELL: Yes, we are related. ], [JENNIFER FRAZER: This is Jennifer Frazer, and I'm a freelance science writer and blogger of The Artful Amoeba at Scientific American. Yeah. Each one an ounce, an ounce, an ounce, an ounce, an ounce. I mean, it's -- like, when a plant bends toward sunlight. So she decided to conduct her experiment. My name is Monica Gagliano. Have you hugged your houseplant today? You know, it goes back to anthropomorphizing plant behaviors. ROBERT: So for three days, three times a day, she would shine these little blue lights on the plants. My name is Monica Gagliano. ROBERT: So here's what she did. 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. He's holding his hand maybe a foot off the ground. This peculiar plant has a -- has a surprising little skill. 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?". Jigs is in trouble!" That's what she says. 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. I mean, I see the dirt. April 8, 2018 By thelandconnection. And it's that little, little bit of moisture that the plant will somehow sense. SUZANNE SIMARD: Not a basset hound, but he was a beagle. SUZANNE SIMARD: You know, I don't completely understand. Then she takes the little light and the little fan and moves them to the other side of the plant. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. 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. 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. ROBERT: So I think what she would argue is that we kind of proved her point. 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. It's like every time I close my eyes, you're coming at it from a different direction. I mean, this is going places. 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. MONICA GAGLIANO: Landing very comfortably onto a padded base made of foam. They definitely don't have a brain. ROBERT: Okay. Let him talk. This happens to a lot of people. Did Jigs emerge? Can you make your own food? 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. 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. JENNIFER FRAZER: They're some other kind of category. That's a -- learning is something I didn't think plants could do. ROBERT: Suzanne says she's not sure if the tree is running the show and saying like, you know, "Give it to the new guy." Yes, we are related. One tree goes "Uh-oh." Well, okay. In my brain. Just the sound of it? Like, two percent or 0.00000001 percent? [ASHLEY: Hi. The light and the fan were always coming from the same direction. ROBERT: What kind of minerals does a tree need? So that's where these -- the scientists from Princeton come in: Peter, Sharon and Aatish. Ring, meat, eat. ], [JENNIFER FRAZER: Our staff includes Simon Adler, Becca Bressler, Rachael Cusick ], [ALVIN UBELL: David -- David Gebel. No, it's far more exciting than that. ROBERT: So maybe could you just describe it just briefly just what you did? The fungus is hunting. So what does the tree do? Little seatbelt for him for the ride down. It's kind of like a cold glass sitting on your desk and there's always a puddle at the bottom. That is definitely cool. ROBERT: Ring, meat, eat. ROBERT: But that day with the roots is the day that she began thinking about the forest that exists underneath the forest. That's a -- learning is something I didn't think plants could do. But she had a kind of, maybe call it a Jigs-ian recollection. Like, the tree was, like, already doing that stuff by itself, but it's the fungus that's doing that stuff? But they do have root hairs. Sorry! So they didn't. I know -- I know you -- I know you don't. We were waiting for the leaves to, you know, stop folding. They sort of put them all together in a dish, and then they walked away. And if you just touch it Where all the leaves close in, like do do do do do do. Take it. Fan, light, lean. And so on. ROBERT: Oh, so it says to the newer, the healthier trees, "Here's my food. ], [ALVIN UBELL: Our fact-checker is Michelle Harris. The fungi needs sugar to build their bodies, the same way that we use our food to build our bodies. The idea was to drop them again just to see, like, the difference between the first time you learn something and the next time. ], Test the outer edges of what you think you know. Because tree roots and a lot of plant roots are not actually very good at doing what you think they're doing. ROBERT: Okay. ROBERT: You don't know what your dog was? MONICA GAGLIANO: A plant that is quite far away from the actual pipe. SUZANNE SIMARD: No, so for example, lignin is important for making a tree stand up straight. ROBERT: Okay. Fan first, light after. And the tubes branch and sometimes they reconnect. MONICA GAGLIANO: Like for example, my plants were all in environment-controlled rooms, which is not a minor detail. We dropped. 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 it begins to look a lot like an airline flight map, but even more dense. 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? Where would the -- a little plant even store a memory? Is that what -- is that what this? JENNIFER FRAZER: So what do we have in our ears that we use to hear sound? I mean, you've heard that. No, I guess that I feel kind of good to say this. Yeah, mimosa has been one of the pet plants, I guess, for many scientists for, like, centuries. This is the plant and pipe mystery. And if you don't have one, by default you can't do much in general. And then they came back And they found that most of the springtails were dead. Fan, light, lean. Testing one, two. But what I do know is that the fact that the plant doesn't have a brain doesn't -- doesn't a priori says that the plants can't do something. Or at the time actually, she was a very little girl who loved the outdoors. She made sure that the dirt didn't get wet, because she'd actually fastened the water pipe to the outside of the pot. ROBERT: They shade each other. That was my reaction. You found exactly what the plants would do under your circumstances which were, I don't know, let's say a bit more tumultuous than mine. We went to the Bronx, and when we went up there, we -- there was this tall man waiting for us. So I don't have a problem. ROBERT: Huh. Different kind of signal traveling through the soil? Because if I let you go it's gonna be another 20 minutes until I get to talk. [ENRIQUE: This is Enrique Romero from the bordertown of Laredo, Texas. JAD: Wait. ], [ROY HALLING: Dylan Keefe is our Director of Sound Design. MONICA GAGLIANO: Not really. 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. Except in this case instead of a chair, they've got a little plant-sized box. ROBERT: Wait a second. Hi. That is actually a clue in what turns out to be a deep, deep mystery. JAD: That is cool. They're some other kind of category. 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. Monica's work has actually gotten quite a bit of attention from other plant biologists. And these acids come out and they start to dissolve the rocks. I don't know if that was the case for your plants. Actually, Monica's dog leads perfectly into her third experiment, which again will be with a plant. But now we know, after having looked at their DNA, that fungi are actually very closely related to animals. It's 10 o'clock and I have to go. JAD: That is cool. 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. And I remember it was Sunday, because I started screaming in my lab. 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. Pulled out a is that a root of some sort? But what -- how would a plant hear something? LARRY UBELL: That -- that's -- that's interesting. Turns the fan on, turns the light on, and the plant turns and leans that way. It is like a bank! And I do that in my brain. So that voice belongs to Aatish Bhatia, who is with Princeton University's Council on Science and Technology. Her use of metaphor. But what I do know is that the fact that the plant doesn't have a brain doesn't -- doesn't a priori says that the plants can't do something. Just read about plants having brains and doing things that we honestly do not expect them. It's okay, puppy. It's now the Wood Wide Web? JAD: Would you say that the plant is seeing the sun? This is like metaphor is letting in the light as opposed to shutting down the blinds. And we were all like, "Oh, my goodness! They definitely don't have a brain. Take it. It's not leaking. I mean, it's a kind of romanticism, I think. And we can move it up, and we can drop it. Like, would they figure it out faster this time? JAD: The part where the water pipe was, the pipe was on the outside of the pot? So you -- if you would take away the fish, the trees would be, like, blitzed. I mean, I think there's something to that. Do you really need a brain to sense the world around you? Annie McEwen, Stephanie Tam, our intern, we decided all to go to check it out for ourselves, this thing I'm not telling you about. JENNIFER FRAZER: Yes, in a lot of cases it is the fungus. And then I would cover them in plastic bags. ROBERT: She says it was like this moment where she realizes, "Oh, my God! They shade each other out. Radiolab: Smarty Plants. JENNIFER FRAZER: Apparently, she built some sort of apparatus. JAD: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. How does it know which way to turn and grow its roots so that it can find the water? 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. He'd fallen in. It's as if the individual trees were somehow thinking ahead to the needs of the whole forest. They designed from scratch a towering parachute drop in blue translucent Lego pieces. Like, can a tree stand up straight without minerals? ROBERT: Eventually, she came back after ROBERT: And they still remembered. Ring, meat, eat. So it's predicting something to arrive. ALVIN UBELL: 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. JENNIFER FRAZER: So Pavlov started by getting some dogs and some meat and a bell. So you are related and you're both in the plumbing business? The tree has a lot of sugar. Never mind. We were so inconsistent, so clumsy, that the plants were smart to keep playing it safe and closing themselves up. ROBERT: Like, would they figure it out faster this time? I'm not making this up. An expert. MONICA GAGLIANO: Would the plant do the same? 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. 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? And again. Well, it depends on who you ask. Like what she saw in the outhouse? Can you -- will you soften your roots so that I can invade your root system?" Add to My Podcasts. Or No. Let us say you have a yard in front of your house. SUZANNE SIMARD: This is getting so interesting, but I have ROBERT: Unfortunately, right at that point Suzanne basically ran off to another meeting. The next one goes, "Uh-oh." Back and forth. People speculated about this, but no one had actually proved it in nature in the woods until Suzanne shows up. From just bears throwing fish on the ground? It's almost as if the forest is acting as an organism itself. Princeton University News Transformations: Students find creativity at intersection of art and engineering. They don't do well in warm temperatures and their needles turn all sickly yellow. I wonder if that was maybe a bit too much. I wonder if that was maybe a bit too much. Because I have an appointment. 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. Like, they don't have ears or a brain or anything like, they couldn't hear like we hear. ROBERT: Oh! But let me just -- let me give it a try. Because the only reason why the experiment turned out to be 28 days is because I ran out of time. And again. To remember? They learned something. ROBERT: The fungus were literally sucking the nitrogen out of the springtails, and it was too late to get away. It's almost as if these plants -- it's almost as if they know where our pipes are. This way there is often more questions than answers, but that's part of the fun as well. I've been looking around lately, and I know that intelligence is not unique to humans. Fan first, light after. She says it was like this moment where she realizes, "Oh, my God! We were waiting for the leaves to, you know, stop folding. ROBERT: Now, you might think that the plant sends out roots in every direction. So you can -- you can see this is like a game of telephone. So they didn't. Well, maybe. And what we found was that the trees that were the biggest and the oldest were the most highly connected. Does it threaten your sense of humanity that you depend for pretty much every single calorie you eat on a plant? The plants would always grow towards the light. Into which she put these sensitive plants. Of Accurate Building Inspectors. And they still remembered. ROBERT: So after much trial and error with click and hums and buzzes MONICA GAGLIANO: All sorts of randomness. You found exactly what the plants would do under your circumstances which were, I don't know, let's say a bit more tumultuous than mine. ROBERT: So that voice belongs to Aatish Bhatia, who is with Princeton University's Council on Science and Technology. JAD: From just bears throwing fish on the ground? ROBERT: Connecting your house to the main city water line that's in the middle of the street. That's a parade I'll show up for. Both aiming at the pea plant from the same direction, and the pea plant leans toward them. Or even learn? And on this particular day, she's with the whole family. Listen to Radiolab: Smarty Plants, an episode of Wilderness Radio, easily on Podbay - the best podcast player on the web. No, so for example, lignin is important for making a tree stand up straight. ], Test the outer edges of what you think you know. They need light to grow. ROBERT: She says what will happen under the ground is that the fungal tubes will stretch up toward the tree roots, and then they'll tell the tree SUZANNE SIMARD: With their chemical language. I'm sorry? Fan, light, lean. View SmartyPlantsRadioLab Transcript (2).docx from CHEM 001A at Pasadena City College. Which by the way, is definitely not a plant. MONICA GAGLIANO: Pretty much like the concept of Pavlov with his dog applied. Pics! ROBERT: That is correct. And again. When they did this, they saw that a lot of the springtails that had the tubes inside them were still alive. JAD: No, it's because it's like every time I close my eyes, you're coming at it from a different direction. ROBERT: Oh, well that's a miracle. They still did not close when she dropped them. Or it could be like, "Okay, I'm not doing so well, so I'm gonna hide this down here in my ceiling.". These sensitive hairs he argues, would probably be able to feel that tiny difference. OUR PODCASTSSUPPORT US Smarty Plants LISTEN Download February 13, 2018 ( Robert Krulwich I was like, "Oh, my God! ROBERT: Remember I told you how trees make sugar? 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. No. Me first. Same as the Pavlov. Yeah. So if all a tree could do was split air to get carbon, you'd have a tree the size of a tulip. And not too far away from this tree, underground, there is a water pipe. ROBERT: And look, and beyond that there are forests, there are trees that the scientists have found where up to 75 percent of the nitrogen in the tree turns out to be fish food. 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 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. MONICA GAGLIANO: Exactly. Then she takes the little light and the little fan and moves them to the other side of the plant. And it's that little, little bit of moisture that the plant will somehow sense. And then Monica would ROBERT: Just about, you know, seven or eight inches. On the outside of the pipe. It was magic for me. So no plants were actually hurt in this experiment. It's time -- time for us to go and lie down on the soft forest floor. Actually, Monica's dog leads perfectly into her third experiment, which again will be with a plant. The roots of this tree of course can go any way they want to go. You just used a very interesting word. So I don't have a problem. I'm 84. That's okay. And so why is that? Big thanks to Aatish Bhatia, to Sharon De La Cruz and to Peter Landgren at Princeton University's Council on Science and Technology. ], [ALVIN UBELL: And Alvin Ubell. 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: Truth is, I think on this point she's got a -- she's right. 36:59. LARRY UBELL: That -- that would be an interesting ALVIN UBELL: Don't interrupt. And if you go to too many rock concerts, you can break these hairs and that leads to permanent hearing loss, which is bad. Why waste hot water? So otherwise they can't photosynthesize. So we're really -- like this is -- we're really at the very beginning of this. Don't interrupt. I don't know. ROBERT: They're father and son. It's almost as if these plants -- it's almost as if they know where our pipes are. ROBERT: But Monica says what she does do is move around the world with a general feeling of ROBERT: What if? You just used a very interesting word. Fan, light, lean. And then someone has to count. And I remember it was Sunday, because I started screaming in my lab. But we are in the home inspection business. When they did this, they saw that a lot of the springtails that had the tubes inside them were still alive. Today, Robert drags Jad along ona parade for the surprising feats of brainless plants. There's not a leak in the glass. Again. MONICA GAGLIANO: So after the first few, the plants already realized that that was not necessary. Like, two percent or 0.00000001 percent? 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. These sensitive hairs he argues, would probably be able to feel that tiny difference. She says what will happen under the ground is that the fungal tubes will stretch up toward the tree roots, and then they'll tell the tree With their chemical language. And might as well start the story back when she was a little girl. 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." Or maybe slower? She's not gonna use hot water because you don't want to cook your plants, you know? But after five days, she found that 80% of the time, the plants went -- or maybe chose -- to head toward the dry pipe that has water in it. I guess you could call it a mimosa plant drop box. They have to -- have to edit in this together. All right, that's it, I think. That is cool. It's a very interesting experiment, and I really want to see whether it's correct or not. He shoves away the leaves, he shoves away the topsoil. Like, I don't understand -- learning, as far as I understand it, is something that involves memory and storage. It's almost as if the forest is acting as an organism itself. That is definitely cool. JAD: If a plant doesn't have a brain what is choosing where to go? 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. So they just went right for the MP3 fake water, not even the actual water? Well of course, there could be a whole -- any number of reasons why, you know, one tree's affected by another. So the question is 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 the classic case of this is if you go back a few centuries ago, someone noticed that plants have sex. And therefore she might, in the end, see something that no one else would see. Like so -- and I think that, you know, the whole forest then, there's an intelligence there that's beyond just the species. Yeah. JENNIFER FRAZER: An anti-predator reaction? MONICA GAGLIANO: Exactly, which is pretty amazing. ROBERT: All right, never mind. And you don't see it anywhere. Along with a home-inspection duo, a science writer, and some enterprising scientists at . About. This is not so good" signal through the network. 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. And if you don't have one, by default you can't do much in general. It's yours." Can you -- will you soften your roots so that I can invade your root system?" There are multiple ways of doing one thing, right? Each one an ounce, an ounce, an ounce, an ounce, an ounce. 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. Pics! JAD: Are you bringing the plant parade again? ALVIN UBELL: The tree will wrap its roots around that pipe. Like, they don't have ears or a brain or anything like, they couldn't hear like we hear. To play the message, press two. And so we are under the impression or I would say the conviction that the brain is the center of the universe, and -- and if you have a brain and a nervous system you are good and you can do amazing stuff. JENNIFER FRAZER: Finally, one time he did not bring the meat, but he rang the bell. And what a tree needs are minerals. MONICA GAGLIANO: My reaction was, "Oh ****!" I think there are some cases where romanticizing something could possibly lead you to some interesting results. Smarty Plants Radiolab | Last.fm Read about Smarty Plants by Radiolab and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. And the pea plants are left alone to sit in this quiet, dark room feeling the breeze. And I mean, like, really loved the outdoors. "I'm under attack!". I'm a research associate professor at the University of Sydney. So this is our plant dropper. JENNIFER FRAZER: Then he would bring them the meat and he would ring a bell. And the fungus actually builds a tunnel inside the rock. Yours is back of your house, but let's make it in the front. So today we have a triptych of experiments about plants. So ROBERT: He says something about that's the wrong season. Robert, I have -- you know what? That there was a kind of a moral objection to thinking this way. Can Robert get Jad tojoin the march? It was a simple little experiment. Tagged #science #technology #philosophy #education #radiolab. He's looking up at us quite scared and very unhappy that he was covered in SUZANNE SIMARD: And toilet paper. They curve, sometimes they branch. That's the place where I can remember things. ROBERT: Could a plant learn to associate something totally random like a bell with something it wanted, like food? I'm a research associate professor at the University of Sydney. Yeah, it might run out of fuel. 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