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? No, I don't because she may come up against it, people who think that intelligence is unique to humans. Smarty Plants--My Latest Guest Spot for Radiolab - Scientific American Blog Network COVID Health Mind & Brain Environment Technology Space & Physics Video Podcasts Opinion Store Knowledge within. LARRY UBELL: Good. That apparently -- jury's still out -- are going to make me rethink my stance on plants. SUZANNE SIMARD: He was a, not a wiener dog. Because what she does next is three days later, she takes these plants back into the lab. The glass is not broken. If there was only the fan, would the plant After three days of this training regime, it is now time to test the plants with just the fan, no light. It's a costly process for this plant, but ROBERT: She figured out they weren't tired. What do you mean? Parsons' Observational Practices Lab Talking About Seeing Symposium. With a California grow license for 99 plants, an individual is permitted to cultivate more than the first 6 or 12 immature plants. Well, it depends on who you ask. The last kind of part of the root gets tangled just around the edge. Exactly. Ring, meat, eat. But then, scientists did an experiment where they gave some springtails some fungus to eat. He's on the right track. But it was originally done with -- with a dog. Yeah. ], [ALVIN UBELL: Our fact-checker is Michelle Harris. So she decided to conduct her experiment. ROBERT: Peering down at the plants under the red glow of her headlamp. No matter how amazing I think that the results are, for some reason people just don't think plants are interesting. ], [LARRY UBELL: Radiolab was created by Jad Abumrad and is produced by Soren Wheeler. 0:00. ROBERT: It won't be a metaphor in just a moment. I've been looking around lately, and I know that intelligence is not unique to humans. So it wasn't touching the dirt at all. They're switched on. ROBERT: And she was willing to entertain the possibility that plants can do something like hear. Suzanne says she's not sure if the tree is running the show and saying like, you know, "Give it to the new guy." So I don't have an issue with that. They're called springtails, because a lot of them have a little organ on the back that they actually can kind of like deploy and suddenly -- boing! ROBERT: Truth is, I think on this point she's got a -- she's right. Now the plants if they were truly dumb they'd go 50/50. They have to -- have to edit in this together. ], Test the outer edges of what you think you know. You got somewhere to go? I mean again, it's a tree. And after not a whole lot of drops the plant, she noticed, stopped closing its leaves. ROBERT: So let's go to the first. On our knees with our noses in the ground, and we can't see anything. It's 10 o'clock and I have to go. Is your dog objecting to my analysis? 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. This is not so good" signal through the network. Okay. They may have this intelligence, maybe we're just not smart enough yet to figure it out. No. In this story, a dog introduces us to a strange creature that burrows . ROBERT: So that's what the tree gives the fungus. So after the first few, the plants already realized that that was not necessary. ROBERT: By the way, should we establish -- is it a fact that you're ALVIN UBELL: He's on the right track. So that voice belongs to Aatish Bhatia, who is with Princeton University's Council on Science and Technology. Well of course, there could be a whole -- any number of reasons why, you know, one tree's affected by another. We were waiting for the leaves to, you know, stop folding. There was some kind of benefit from the birch to the fur. ROBERT: Truth is, I think on this point she's got a -- she's right. ROBERT: This final thought. And might as well start the story back when she was a little girl. So it wasn't touching the dirt at all. JAD: Is it just pulling it from the soil? Don't interrupt. So for three days, three times a day, she would shine these little blue lights on the plants. 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? They may have this intelligence, maybe we're just not smart enough yet to figure it out. JENNIFER FRAZER: Right? JAD: So they just went right for the MP3 fake water, not even the actual water? The bell, the meat and the salivation. LARRY UBELL: No, I don't because she may come up against it, people who think that intelligence is unique to humans. And lignin is full of nitrogen, but also compounds like nitrogen is important in DNA, right? Both aiming at the pea plant from the same direction, and the pea plant leans toward them. ROBERT: That is actually a clue in what turns out to be a deep, deep mystery. Bye everybody. Yours is back of your house, but let's make it in the front. You know, they talk about how honeybee colonies are sort of superorganisms, because each individual bee is sort of acting like it's a cell in a larger body. JENNIFER FRAZER: Yeah, it might run out of fuel. MONICA GAGLIANO: Picasso! It's the equivalent of a human being jumping over the Eiffel Tower. So they didn't. ROBERT: Packets of minerals. And she says this time they relaxed almost immediately. ROBERT: A tree needs something else. Again. JAD: Are you bringing the plant parade again? And this is what makes it even more gruesome. JAD: Where would the -- a little plant even store a memory? Wait. The whole thing immediately closes up and makes it look like, "Oh, there's no plant here. Monica thought about that and designed a different experiment. 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. ROBERT: I'm not making this up. So Monica moves the fans to a new place one more time. Robert Krulwich. ROBERT: Could a plant learn to associate something totally random like a bell with something it wanted, like food? ROBERT: A little while back, I had a rather boisterous conversation with these two guys. The whole thing immediately closes up and makes it look like, "Oh, there's no plant here. 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, it depends on who you ask. MONICA GAGLIANO: And it's good it was Sunday. Little fan goes on, the light goes on. ", So the deer's like, "Oh, well. So we're really -- like this is -- we're really at the very beginning of this. It's about how plants learn, or adapt, or even listen, the way humans do (though scientists really don't seem to know how). And then all of a sudden, she says she looks down into the ground and she notices all around them where the soil has been cleared away there are roots upon roots upon roots in this thick, crazy tangle. So they figured out who paid for the murder. LARRY UBELL: Yes, we are related. In a tangling of spaghetti-like, almost a -- and each one of those lines of spaghetti is squeezing a little bit. Jul 30, 2016. And moved around, but always matched in the same way together. 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: Do its reflex defense thing. It doesn't ROBERT: I know, I know. ROBERT: What's its job? From just bears throwing fish on the ground? He's got lots of questions about her research methods, but really his major complaint is -- is her language. And remember, if you're a springtail, don't talk to strange mushrooms. So we're really -- like this is -- we're really at the very beginning of this. The tree has a lot of sugar. I mean, I think there's something to that. I mean, I think there's something to that. Huh. And we were able to map the network. You should definitely go out and check out her blog, The Artful Amoeba, especially to the posts, the forlorn ones about plants. ]. Sorry! ], Maria Matasar-Padilla is our Managing Director. But we are in the home inspection business. Dedicated to enhancing the lives of the citizens in the communities it serves by responding to their need to be engaged, educated, entertained & enlightened. Huh. So Pavlov started by getting some dogs and some meat and a bell. 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 when you look at the map, what you see are circles sprouting lines and then connecting to other circles also sprouting lines. Turns the fan on, turns the light on, and the plant turns and leans that way. Where would the -- a little plant even store a memory? They look just like mining tunnels. We went and looked for ourselves. ROBERT: Two very different options for our plant. They have to -- have to edit in this together. It was like -- it was like a huge network. And the tree happens to be a weeping willow. ], [JENNIFER FRAZER: Our fact-checkers are Eva Dasher and Michelle Harris. MONICA GAGLIANO: Exactly, which is pretty amazing. ROBERT: Ring, meat, eat. And she wondered whether that was true. Let him talk. In 1997, a couple of scientists wrote a paper which describes how fungi JENNIFER FRAZER: Have developed a system for mining. And the tree gets the message, and it sends a message back and says, "Yeah, I can do that.". 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. ROBERT: Wait a second. ], Test the outer edges of what you think you know. And his idea was to see if he could condition these dogs to associate that food would be coming from the sound of a bell. I 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. Today, Robert drags Jad along ona parade for the surprising feats of brainless plants. And therefore she might, in the end, see something that no one else would see. Or even learn? And if you go to too many rock concerts, you can break these hairs and that leads to permanent hearing loss, which is bad. But maybe it makes her sort of more open-minded than -- than someone who's just looking at a notebook. ROBERT: But what -- how would a plant hear something? I mean, to say that a plant is choosing a direction, I don't know. So the plants are now, you know, buckled in, minding their own business. 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 what a tree needs are minerals. About. Thud. On the outside of the pipe. Plants are complex and ancient organisms. ], [ROY HALLING: Radiolab is produced by Jad Abumrad. A forest can feel like a place of great stillness and quiet. But it was originally done with -- with a dog. Is it, like -- is it a plant? JAD: Well, okay. [ENRIQUE: This is Enrique Romero from the bordertown of Laredo, Texas. Oh, so it says to the newer, the healthier trees, "Here's my food. Episodes. ROBERT: He gives us a magnifying glass. View SmartyPlantsRadioLab Transcript (2).docx from CHEM 001A at Pasadena City College. Oh! Ring, meat, eat. JAD: That is cool. So it wasn't touching the dirt at all. They have to -- have to edit in this together. More information about Sloan at www.sloan.org.]. Because if I let you go it's gonna be another 20 minutes until I get to talk. Nothing happened at all. 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. JAD: And the plant still went to the place where the pipe was not even in the dirt? They still remembered. He shoves away the leaves, he shoves away the topsoil. JENNIFER FRAZER: I do find it magical. Just a boring set of twigs. It was a simple little 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. 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? He's not a huge fan of. And again. Big thanks to Aatish Bhatia, to Sharon De La Cruz and to Peter Landgren at Princeton University's Council on Science and Technology. So she's saying they remembered for almost a month? And so on. I don't know if that was the case for your plants. ROBERT: Isn't that what you do? And then what happens? Me first. And why would -- why would the fungi want to make this network? Yeah. Ring, meat, eat. Except in this case instead of a chair, they've got a little plant-sized box. JAD: So today we have a triptych of experiments about plants. 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. How does it know which way to turn and grow its roots so that it can find the water? But they do have root hairs. 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. 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. Would they stay in the tree, or would they go down to the roots? The Ubells see this happening all the time. He was a, not a wiener dog. 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. There are multiple ways of doing one thing, right? And so the whole family and uncles and aunts and cousins, we all rush up there. No, I don't because she may come up against it, people who think that intelligence is unique to humans. If you look at these particles under the microscope, you can see the little tunnels. Yeah. It's okay. ROBERT: She took that notion out of the garden into her laboratory. The tree has a lot of sugar. She's a forestry professor at the University of British Columbia. And therefore she might, in the end, see something that no one else would see. He was a -- what was he? ROBERT: They would salivate and then eat the meat. ROBERT: But she's got a little red headlamp on. The part where the water pipe was, the pipe was on the outside of the pot? 526; 4 years ago; Smarty Plants by Radiolab. One time, the plant literally flew out of the pot and upended with roots exposed. The plants would always grow towards the light. [ASHLEY: Hi. Exactly. That's what she says. JAD: So we're up to experiment two now, are we not? And I do that in my brain. Today, Robert drags Jad along ona parade for the surprising feats of brainless plants. That there was a kind of a moral objection to thinking it this way. ROBERT: So after much trial and error with click and hums and buzzes MONICA GAGLIANO: All sorts of randomness. ], [JENNIFER FRAZER: And lastly, a friendly reminder. They sort of put them all together in a dish, and then they walked away. No question there. ROBERT: I wanted to talk to them because, as building inspectors they -- there's something they see over and over and over. So no plants were actually hurt in this experiment. ANNIE: Yeah. This is the plant and pipe mystery. JENNIFER FRAZER: An anti-predator reaction? Listen to Radiolab: "Smarty Plants" on Pandora - Do you really need a brain to sense the world around you? Pics! JENNIFER FRAZER: One of the things they eat is fungus. And we can move it up, and we can drop it. ROBERT: I do want to go back, though, to -- for something like learning, like, I don't understand -- learning, as far as I understand it, is something that involves memory and storage. So actually, I think you were very successful with your experiment. AATISH BHATIA: So this is our plant dropper. And we can move it up, and we can drop it. JAD: So we're up to experiment two now, are we not? Every time. MONICA GAGLIANO: Or would just be going random? So they might remember even for a much longer time than 28 days. It's like, no, no, I don't do that. We're carefully examining the roots of this oak tree. This is the headphones? I don't know if that was the case for your plants. Because the only reason why the experiment turned out to be 28 days is because I ran out of time. MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah, tested it in my lab. WHRO is Hampton Roads' local NPR / PBS Station. Radiolab is supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, enhancing public understanding of Science and Technology in the modern world. Charts. MONICA GAGLIANO: I wonder if that was maybe a bit too much. It's not leaking. So you can get -- anybody can get one of these plants, and we did. So after the first few, the plants already realized that that was not necessary. Or even learn? I don't know if that was the case for your plants. They're switched on. The Douglas fir became diseased and -- and died. When they did this, they saw that a lot of the springtails that had the tubes inside them were still alive. JENNIFER FRAZER: Yeah. This is the headphones? Back and forth. STEPHANIE TAM: Can the tree feel you ripping the roots out like that? It was done by radiolab, called "smarty plants". We were so inconsistent, so clumsy, that the plants were smart to keep playing it safe and closing themselves up. It's a family business. ROBERT: Huh. Start of message. I don't want that.". Jad and Robert, theyare split on this one. LARRY UBELL: It's not leaking. 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. 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. ROBERT: So you're like a metaphor cop with a melty heart. No, it's because it's like every time I close my eyes, you're coming at it from a different direction. Now, can you -- can you imagine what we did wrong? I spoke to her with our producer Latif Nasser, and she told us that this -- this network has developed a kind of -- a nice, punny sort of name. Yours is back of your house, but let's make it in the front. Ring, meat, eat. If she's going to do this experiment, most likely she's going to use cold water. Jennifer told Latif and I about another role that these fungi play. Unfortunately, right at that point Suzanne basically ran off to another meeting. Along with a home-inspection duo, a science writer, and some enterprising . 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. Like the bell for the dog. And I remember it was Sunday, because I started screaming in my lab. MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah, mimosa has been one of the pet plants, I guess, for many scientists for, like, centuries. MONICA GAGLIANO: Exactly. I think you can be open-minded but still objective. ROBERT: Now, you might think that the plant sends out roots in every direction. Jad and Robert, they are split on this one. ROBERT: Monica's work has actually gotten quite a bit of attention from other plant biologists. And she says this time they relaxed almost immediately. So Monica moves the fans to a new place one more time. Turns the fan on, turns the light on, and the plant turns and leans that way. But what I do know is that the fact that the plant doesn't have a brain doesn't -- doesn't a priori say that the plants can't do something. MONICA GAGLIANO: Well, I created these horrible contraptions. It's almost as if these plants -- it's almost as if they know where our pipes are. I'm 84. She's not gonna use hot water because you don't want to cook your plants, you know? JENNIFER FRAZER: Well, maybe. Different kind of signal traveling through the soil? The next one goes, "Uh-oh." JENNIFER FRAZER: So Pavlov started by getting some dogs and some meat and a bell. I'll put it down in my fungi. They're some other kind of category. No. And she wondered whether that was true. 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? ROBERT: So light is -- if you shine light on a plant you're, like, feeding it? They're called feeder roots. Big thanks to Aatish Bhatia, to Sharon De La Cruz and to Peter Landgren at Princeton University's Council on Science and Technology. 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. Oh, yeah. We dropped. LARRY UBELL: All right, if she's going to do this experiment, most likely she's going to use cold water. 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. Or even learn? There's not a leak in the glass. ROBERT: Ring, meat, eat. If you get too wrapped up in your poetic metaphor, you're very likely to be misled and to over-interpret the data. And you don't see it anywhere. So you're like a metaphor cop with a melty heart. You know, it goes back to anthropomorphizing plant behaviors. And we saw this in the Bronx. So there is some water outside of the pipe. You need the nutrients that are in the soil. And it's good it was Sunday. She made sure that the dirt didn't get wet, because she'd actually fastened the water pipe to the outside of the pot. If there was only the fan, would the plant After three days of this training regime, it is now time to test the plants with just the fan, no light. Isn't -- doesn't -- don't professors begin to start falling out of chairs when that word gets used regarding plants? It was magic for me. RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH: It's the equivalent of a human being jumping over the Eiffel Tower. I mean, this is going places. SUZANNE SIMARD: Jigs emerged. It's almost as if these plants -- it's almost as if they know where our pipes are. But we are in the home inspection business. And for the meat substitute, she gave each plant little bit of food. Because what she does next is three days later, she takes these plants back into the lab. LARRY UBELL: Yes, we are related. She actually trained this story in a rather elaborate experimental setup to move away from the light and toward a light breeze against all of its instincts. MONICA GAGLIANO: All of them know already what to do. Fan, light, lean. Then she takes the little light and the little fan and moves them to the other side of the plant. Yes, we don't normally ascribe intelligence to plants, and plants are not thought to have brains. ROBERT: Actually, Monica's dog leads perfectly into her third experiment, which again will be with a plant. You just used a very interesting word. 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. Submitted by Irene Kaufman on Sun, 04/08/2018 - 12:58pm. Did Jigs emerge? ROBERT: Oh. MONICA GAGLIANO: Not really. So no plants were actually hurt in this experiment. Testing one, two. What happened to you didn't happen to us. And his idea was to see if he could condition these dogs to associate that food would be coming from the sound of a bell. An expert. ROBERT: She says it was like this moment where she realizes, "Oh, my God! To play the message, press two. 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. JAD: What exchange would that be, Robert? 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. But white, translucent and hairy, sort of. So the fungus is giving the tree the minerals. ROBERT: And he starts digging with his rake at the base of this tree. And she goes into that darkened room with all the pea plants. Fan first, light after. Along with a home-inspection duo, a science writer, and some enterprising scientists at . And then they came back JENNIFER FRAZER: And they found that most of the springtails were dead. The magnolia tree outside of our house got into the sewer pipes, reached its tentacles into our house and busted the sewage pipe. This is the fungus. Me first. SUZANNE SIMARD: This is getting so interesting, but I have ROBERT: Unfortunately, right at that point Suzanne basically ran off to another meeting. JENNIFER FRAZER: From a particular direction. I mean, it's a kind of romanticism, I think. ROBERT: They're father and son. But they do have root hairs. That's what she says. Eventually over a period of time, it'll crack the pipe like a nutcracker. The plants have to keep pulling their leaves up and they just get tired. MONICA GAGLIANO: Picasso! Tubes. ROBERT: So we strapped in our mimosa plant. It'd be all random. He gives us a magnifying glass. You know, they talk about how honeybee colonies are sort of superorganisms, because each individual bee is sort of acting like it's a cell in a larger body. JENNIFER FRAZER: And his idea was to see if he could condition these dogs to associate that food would be coming from the sound of a bell. So he brought them some meat. And again. So -- so carbon will move from that dying tree. Exactly. ROBERT: It's kind of -- it's shaped like MONICA GAGLIANO: Like the letter Y, but upside down. Actually that's good advice for anyone. I purposely removed the chance for a moisture gradient. ], [JENNIFER FRAZER: Dylan Keefe is our Director of Sound Design. And again. Yeah, I know. Image credits: Photo Credit: Flickred! No. They start producing chemicals that taste really bad. SUZANNE SIMARD: Yes, that seems to be what happens. ROBERT: Oh, so it says to the newer, the healthier trees, "Here's my food. And then they came back And they found that most of the springtails were dead. It's not leaking. Can you -- will you soften your roots so that I can invade your root system?" Very similar to the sorts of vitamins and minerals that humans need. In a tangling of spaghetti-like, almost a -- and each one of those lines of spaghetti is squeezing a little bit. ROBERT: She says a timber company would move in and clear cut an entire patch of forest, and then plant some new trees. I found a little water! Because if I let you go it's gonna be another 20 minutes until I get to talk. I don't think Monica knows the answer to that, but she does believe that, you know, that we humans We are a little obsessed with the brain. ROBERT: So that voice belongs to Aatish Bhatia, who is with Princeton University's Council on Science and Technology. Different kind of signal traveling through the soil? 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 definitely crazy. This is Roy Halling, researcher specializing in fungi at the New York Botanical Garden. And it was almost like, let's see how much I have to stretch it here before you forget. What's its job? 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