Maybe there's some kind of signal? ROY HALLING: It's just getting started. I thought -- I thought tree roots just sort of did -- like, I thought -- I always imagined tree roots were kind of like straws. And it was almost like, let's see how much I have to stretch it here before you forget. Well, I have one thing just out of curiosity ROBERT: As we were winding up with our home inspectors, Alvin and Larry Ubell, we thought maybe we should run this metaphor idea by them. ROBERT: And the idea was, she wanted to know like, once the radioactive particles were in the tree, what happens next? More information about Sloan at www.sloan.org]. And with these two stimuli, she put the plants, the little pea plants through a kind of training regime. This is the headphones? There was some kind of benefit from the birch to the fur. Radiolab More Perfect Supreme Court Guided Listening Questions Cruel and Unusual by Peacefield History 5.0 (8) $1.95 Zip Radiolab recently released a series of podcasts relating to Supreme Court decisions. MONICA GAGLIANO: I wonder if that was maybe a bit too much. The plants have to keep pulling their leaves up and they just get tired. You have a forest, you have mushrooms. But if you dig a little deeper, there's a hidden world beneath your feet as busy and complicated as a city at rush hour. ROBERT: And then she waited a few more days and came back. You're doing the -- like, okay first it was the roots under the ground all connected into a whole hive thing. Radiolab will continue in a moment. ROBERT: Now, you might think that the plant sends out roots in every direction. Yours is back of your house, but let's make it in the front. Apparently, she built some sort of apparatus. They're all out in the forest. ROBERT: There's -- they have found salmon in tree rings. So he brought them some meat. 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. We're carefully examining the roots of this oak tree. I go out and I thought there's no one here on Sunday afternoon. No, no, no, no, no. 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. That there was a kind of a moral objection to thinking it this way. Fan, light, lean. ROBERT: I don't know why you have problems with this. That is actually a clue in what turns out to be a deep, deep mystery. Fan, light, lean. And right in the middle of the yard is a tree. 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. ROBERT: That is actually a clue in what turns out to be a deep, deep mystery. JENNIFER FRAZER: So what do we have in our ears that we use to hear sound? In my brain. You know, one of those little jeweler's glasses? Well, I have one thing just out of curiosity ROBERT: As we were winding up with our home inspectors, Alvin and Larry Ubell, we thought maybe we should run this metaphor idea by them. Little seatbelt for him for the ride down. 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. So they didn't. ROBERT: I know -- I know you -- I know you don't. ROBERT: How do you mean? ROBERT: Jennifer says that what the tubes do is they worm their way back and forth through the soil until they bump into some pebbles. They don't do well in warm temperatures and their needles turn all sickly yellow. JENNIFER FRAZER: Yeah, it might run out of fuel. And the fungus actually builds a tunnel inside the rock. Is that what -- is that what this? "I'm in the neighborhood. Except in this case instead of a chair, they've got a little plant-sized box. You know, it goes back to anthropomorphizing plant behaviors. Let him talk. I was, like, floored. MONICA GAGLIANO: Like a defensive mechanism. I'm a professor emeritus of plant biology at UC Santa Cruz. But they do have root hairs. say they're very curious, but want to see these experiments repeated. They have to -- have to edit in this together. So I don't have a problem. ROBERT: And for the meat substitute, she gave each plant little bit of food. MONICA GAGLIANO: Light is obviously representing dinner. MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah, plants really like light, you know? On the outside of the pipe. JENNIFER FRAZER: Yeah, it might run out of fuel. To remember? And I'm wondering whether Monica is gonna run into, as she tries to make plants more animal-like, whether she's just gonna run into this malice from the scientific -- I'm just wondering, do you share any of that? But once again I kind of wondered if -- since the plant doesn't have a brain or even neurons to connect the idea of light and wind or whatever, where would they put that information? MONICA GAGLIANO: And it's good it was Sunday. Very similar to the sorts of vitamins and minerals that humans need. Connecting your house to the main city water line that's in the middle of the street. And I remember it was Sunday, because I started screaming in my lab. 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 . How does it know which way to turn and grow its roots so that it can find the water? Okay? Well, maybe. He shoves away the leaves, he shoves away the topsoil. The tree will wrap its roots around that pipe. 00:34:54 - Do you really need a brain to sense the world around you? And they're digging and digging and digging. Here's the water.". ROBERT: So there is some water outside of the pipe. But it didn't happen. She's working in the timber industry at the time. Robert, I have -- you know what? ROBERT: But what -- how would a plant hear something? And then when times are hard, that fungi will give me my sugar back and I can start growing again. JENNIFER FRAZER: Yes, in a lot of cases it is the fungus. The show is known for innovative sound design, smashing information int That's what she says. And then I would cover them in plastic bags. It's like a savings account? MONICA GAGLIANO: Landing very comfortably onto a padded base made of foam. I'm 84. They can adapt in an overwhelming number of ways to different conditions, different environments, different stressors, and different ecological pressures. They're father and son. It involves a completely separate organism I haven't mentioned yet. It's gone. ROBERT: And with these two stimuli, she put the plants, the little pea plants through a kind of training regime. No. But instead of dogs, she had pea plants in a dark room. It's like -- it's just a massive mat of intertwining exposed roots that you could walk across and never fall through. And right in the middle of the yard is a tree. JAD: The part where the water pipe was, the pipe was on the outside of the pot? But we are in the home inspection business. On the outside of the pipe. Is it, like -- is it a plant? The problem is is with plants. Maybe each root is -- is like a little ear for the plant. This peculiar plant has a -- has a surprising little skill. They designed from scratch a towering parachute drop in blue translucent Lego pieces. Okay. 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. And the classic case of this is if you go back a few centuries ago, someone noticed that plants have sex. So these trees were basically covered with bags that were then filled with radioactive gas. No, it's because it's like every time I close my eyes, you're coming at it from a different direction. [laughs]. And if you don't have one, by default you can't do much in general. It's condensation. It's okay. You know, it goes back to anthropomorphizing plant behaviors. That was my reaction. Yeah. 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. Jad and Robert, they are split on this one. 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. Like, from the trees perspective, how much of their sugar are they giving to the fungus? You have to understand that the cold water pipe causes even a small amount of water to condense on the pipe itself. And they, you know, they push each other away so they can get to the sky. The tree has a lot of sugar. SUZANNE SIMARD: He was a, not a wiener dog. Five, four, three, two, one, drop! They may have this intelligence, maybe we're just not smart enough yet to figure it out. JAD: That is cool. And we can move it up, and we can drop it. 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. They can also send warning signals through the fungus. ROBERT: But instead of dogs, she had pea plants in a dark room. My name is Monica Gagliano. JENNIFER FRAZER: It's definitely crazy. It should have some. WHRO is Hampton Roads' local NPR / PBS Station. This -- this actually happened to me. ROBERT: What do mean, the fungi will give me my sugar back? ROBERT: So now, they had the radioactive particles inside their trunks and their branches. Fan, light, lean. Or even learn? So Monica moves the fans to a new place one more time. Then he would bring them the meat and he would ring a bell. Yeah. ROBERT: But she's got a little red headlamp on. 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 dogs is expecting. So we're really -- like this is -- we're really at the very beginning of this. And of course we had to get Jigs out. MONICA GAGLIANO: My reaction was, "Oh ****!" ROBERT: Okay. So today we have a triptych of experiments about plants. To remember? SUZANNE SIMARD: Potassium and calcium and ROBERT: Like, can a tree stand up straight without minerals? LARRY UBELL: No, I don't because she may come up against it, people who think that intelligence is unique to humans. But it was originally done with -- with a dog. Yeah, plants really like light, you know? MONICA GAGLIANO: Picasso! And not too far away from this tree, underground, there is a water pipe. JENNIFER FRAZER: Then he would bring them the meat and he would ring a bell. So what does the tree do? I mean, you've heard that. ROBERT: She says a timber company would move in and clear cut an entire patch of forest, and then plant some new trees. ROBERT: Little white threads attached to the roots. Jad and Robert, they are split on this one. JAD: The plants have to keep pulling their leaves up and they just get tired. JENNIFER FRAZER: And this is what makes it even more gruesome. 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. ROBERT: That is actually a clue in what turns out to be a deep, deep mystery. Absolutely not. Yeah, and I have done inspections where roots were coming up through the pipe into the house. ROBERT: These sensitive hairs he argues, would probably be able to feel that tiny difference. Well, I asked Suzanne about that. Now, can you -- can you imagine what we did wrong? ROBERT: But the drop was just shocking and sudden enough for the little plant to ROBERT: Do its reflex defense thing. ROBERT: Could a plant learn to associate something totally random like a bell with something it wanted, like food? Truth is, I think on this point she's got a -- she's right. On the outside of the pipe. I guess you could call it a mimosa plant drop box. It's an integral part of DNA. No, I guess that I feel kind of good to say this. Where would the -- a little plant even store a memory? And what she discovered is that all these trees, all these trees that were of totally different species were sharing their food underground. SUZANNE SIMARD: It'll go, "Ick. So no plants were actually hurt in this experiment. ], Matt Kielty, Robert Krulwich, Annie McEwen, Andy Mills, Latif Nasser, Malissa O'Donnell. They may have this intelligence, maybe we're just not smart enough yet to figure it out. MONICA GAGLIANO: Well, I created these horrible contraptions. It would be all random. ROBERT: 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. LATIF: It's like a bank? MONICA GAGLIANO: Or would just be going random? Or maybe it's the fungus under the ground is kind of like a broker and decides who gets what. ], [ROY HALLING: Radiolab is produced by Jad Abumrad. So she decided to conduct her experiment. MONICA GAGLIANO: Like for example, my plants were all in environment-controlled rooms, which is not a minor detail. Ring, meat, eat. He's not a huge fan of. "I'm in the neighborhood. 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. ], This is Jennifer Frazer, and I'm a freelance science writer and blogger of The Artful Amoeba at Scientific American. Like, the plant is hunting? Couldn't it just be an entirely different interpretation here? They definitely don't have a brain. And for a long time, they were thought of as plants. Today, Robert drags Jad along on a parade for the surprising feats of brainless plants. Yes. You got the plant to associate the fan with food. You need the nutrients that are in the soil. All right. ROBERT: Isn't that what you do? Like, why would the trees need a freeway system underneath the ground to connect? No question there. And again. Because the only reason why the experiment turned out to be 28 days is because I ran out of time. ROBERT: 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. JENNIFER FRAZER: And he would repeat this. ", So the deer's like, "Oh, well. He was a, not a wiener dog. LINCOLN TAIZ: I think you can be open-minded but still objective. And if you go to too many rock concerts, you can break these hairs and that leads to permanent hearing loss, which is bad. Today, Robert drags Jad along on a parade for the surprising feats of brainless plants. Instead of eating the fungus, it turns out the fungus ate them. This peculiar plant has a -- has a surprising little skill. Jigs emerged. That's what she says. ROBERT: So that voice belongs to Aatish Bhatia, who is with Princeton University's Council on Science and Technology. And the tubes branch and sometimes they reconnect. Can you make your own food? ROBERT: They're sort of flea-sized and they spend lots of time munching leaves on the forest floor. They're switched on. And so I don't have a problem with that. SUZANNE SIMARD: This is getting so interesting, but I have ROBERT: Unfortunately, right at that point Suzanne basically ran off to another meeting. ROBERT: Salmon consumption. And if you don't have one, by default you can't do much in general. Wait a second. So we're really -- like this is -- we're really at the very beginning of this. Along with a home-inspection duo, a science writer, and some enterprising scientists at Princeton University, we dig into the work of evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano, who turns our. ROBERT: I know -- I know you -- I know you don't. But she had a kind of, maybe call it a Jigs-ian recollection. It's a costly process for this plant, but ROBERT: She figured out they weren't tired. And then when times are hard, that fungi will give me my sugar back and I can start growing again. I'll put it down in my fungi. So the fungus is giving the tree the minerals. MONICA GAGLIANO: Or would just be going random? The problem is is with plants. ROBERT: And we dropped it once and twice. ALVIN UBELL: And I've been in the construction industry ever since I'm about 16 years old. And might as well start the story back when she was a little girl. So no plants were actually hurt in this experiment. No. Well, it depends on who you ask. ]. Could a plant learn to associate something totally random like a bell with something it wanted, like food? Okay. ROBERT: And this? ROBERT: She found that the one stimulus that would be perfect was MONICA GAGLIANO: A little fan. The tree will wrap its roots around that pipe. Jad and Robert, theyare split on this one. Except in this case instead of a chair, they've got a little plant-sized box. 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. Do you really need a brain to sense the world around you? 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. The fungus were literally sucking the nitrogen out of the springtails, and it was too late to get away. Pics! Jigs is in trouble!" And so the whole family and uncles and aunts and cousins, we all rush up there. The idea was to drop them again just to see, like, the difference between the first time you learn something and the next time. 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. ROBERT: And she was willing to entertain the possibility that plants can do something like hear. This is the headphones? Pretty much like the concept of Pavlov with his dog applied. And it's in that little space between them that they make the exchange. On one side, instead of the pipe with water, she attaches an MP3 player with a little speaker playing a recording of And then on the other side, Monica has another MP3 player with a speaker. Nothing happened at all. ROBERT: Just for example. ROBERT: So that's what the tree gives the fungus. ROBERT: That is correct. I don't know. And then she waited a few more days and came back. Because what she does next is three days later, she takes these plants back into the lab. And so I don't have a problem with that. JENNIFER FRAZER: This all has a history, of course. So maybe the root hairs, which are always found right at the growing tips of plant roots, maybe plant roots are like little ears. ROBERT: But instead of dogs, she had pea plants in a dark room. Just for example Let's say it's -- times are good. Well, I created these horrible contraptions. No. And I've been in the construction industry ever since I'm about 16 years old. Because after dropping them 60 times, she then shook them left to right and they instantly folded up again. Fan, light, lean. Never mind.". Both aiming at the pea plant from the same direction, and the pea plant leans toward them. So that voice belongs to Aatish Bhatia, who is with Princeton University's Council on Science and Technology. SUZANNE SIMARD: He'd fallen in. It was like, "Oh, I might disturb my plants!" All in all, turns out one tree was connected to 47 other trees all around it. ROBERT: Ring, meat, eat. Hobbled, really. So we went back to Monica. Radiolab: Smarty Plants. 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. Peering down at the plants under the red glow of her headlamp. I thought -- I thought tree roots just sort of did -- like, I thought -- I always imagined tree roots were kind of like straws. This assignment pairs with the RadioLab podcast; specifically the Smarty Plants episode. ROBERT: So you're like a metaphor cop with a melty heart. ROBERT: And with these two stimuli, she put the plants, the little pea plants through a kind of training regime. ROBERT: And the classic case of this is if you go back a few centuries ago, someone noticed that plants have sex. OUR PODCASTSSUPPORT US Smarty Plants LISTEN Download February 13, 2018 ( Robert Krulwich She says it was like this moment where she realizes, "Oh, my God! ROBERT: And for the meat substitute, she gave each plant little bit of food. I've been looking around lately, and I know that intelligence is not unique to humans. JENNIFER FRAZER: With when they actually saw and smelled and ate meat. Ring, meat, eat. This is the plant and pipe mystery. Do you really need a brain to sense the world around you? So after the first few, the plants already realized that that was not necessary. Because I have an appointment. That's amazing and fantastic. JENNIFER FRAZER: Carbon, which is science speak for food. I'm a research associate professor at the University of Sydney. Like, if you put food into one tree over here, it would end up in another tree maybe 30 feet away over there, and then a third tree over here, and then a fourth tree over there, and a fifth tree over there. Pics! JAD: That is cool. 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. Yes, we are related. Or even learn? 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. -- they spring way up high in the air. We dropped. Which by the way, is definitely not a plant. No matter how amazing I think that the results are, for some reason people just don't think plants are interesting. MONICA GAGLIANO: I created these horrible contraptions. Never mind. JAD: The plants -- the plants stopped -- what is it they did? JENNIFER FRAZER: Right? JENNIFER FRAZER: Yeah. ROBERT: Connecting your house to the main city water line that's in the middle of the street. Well, some of them can first of all, and big deal. MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah. I was like, "Oh, my God! All right, my hypothesis is that what happens is You got somewhere to go? And so they have this trading system with trees. An expert. The light and the fan were always coming from the same direction. So what do we have in our ears that we use to hear sound? Couldn't it just be an entirely different interpretation here? ROBERT: Peering down at the plants under the red glow of her headlamp. These guys are actually doing it." 2016. 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. ROBERT: I think that's fair. A little while back, I had a rather boisterous conversation with these two guys. And remember, if you're a springtail, don't talk to strange mushrooms. So they figured out who paid for the murder. The last kind of part of the root gets tangled just around the edge. It should have some. Again. 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 you don't see it anywhere. So Monica moves the fans to a new place one more time. If she's going to do this experiment, most likely she's going to use cold water. So I think what she would argue is that we kind of proved her point. Share. Start of message. PETER LANDGREN: Little seatbelt for him for the ride down. And then all the other ones go in the same direction. Her use of metaphor. 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. Like for example, my plants were all in environment-controlled rooms, which is not a minor detail. Can Robert get Jad to join the march? Wait a second. To remember? They need light to grow. ROBERT: So you just did what Pavlov did to a plant. There's not a leak in the glass. The water is still in there. No, I actually, like even this morning it's already like poof! Let me just back up for a second so that you can -- to set the scene for you. ROBERT: He's got lots of questions about her research methods, but really his major complaint is -- is her language. When they did this, they saw that a lot of the springtails that had the tubes inside them were still alive. MONICA GAGLIANO: Pretty much like the concept of Pavlov with his dog applied. So we went back to Monica. When they did this, they saw that a lot of the springtails that had the tubes inside them were still alive. And the pea plants are left alone to sit in this quiet, dark room feeling the breeze. Now, you might think that the plant sends out roots in every direction. 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'm a professor emeritus of plant biology at UC Santa Cruz. Ring, meat, eat. Enough of that! JAD: No, I actually, like even this morning it's already like poof! They definitely don't have a brain. This is Ashley Harding from St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. ROBERT: She found that the one stimulus that would be perfect was MONICA GAGLIANO: A little fan. It's as if the individual trees were somehow thinking ahead to the needs of the whole forest. What was your reaction when you saw this happen? SUZANNE SIMARD: We had a Geiger counter out there. [laughs] When I write a blog post, my posts that get the least traffic guaranteed are the plant posts. On our knees with our noses in the ground, and we can't see anything. ROBERT: That would be sugar-minerals-sugar-minerals-sugar-minerals-sugar-minerals-sugar-minerals-sugar-minerals-sugar-minerals-sugar-minerals. The tree has a lot of sugar. In this case, a little blue LED light. There's this whole other world right beneath my feet. Smarty Plants. And for the meat substitute, she gave each plant little bit of food. Are going to make me rethink my stance on plants. 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. 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. LARRY UBELL: All right, my hypothesis is that what happens is LARRY UBELL: Can I -- can I have a few minutes? Let him talk. And then Monica would Just about, you know, seven or eight inches. ROBERT: This is very like if you had a little helmet with a light on it. 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. And then they came back JENNIFER FRAZER: And they found that most of the springtails were dead. It's a family business. 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