It involves a completely separate organism I haven't mentioned yet. ROBERT: Well, so what's the end of the story? And moved around, but always matched in the same way together. ", ROBERT: So the deer's like, "Oh, well. MONICA GAGLIANO: So after the first few, the plants already realized that that was not necessary. So the roots can go either left or to the right. They remembered what had happened three days before, that dropping didn't hurt, that they didn't have to fold up. Because if I let you go it's gonna be another 20 minutes until I get to talk. The next one goes, "Uh-oh." The plants -- the plants stopped -- what is it they did? But she had a kind of, maybe call it a Jigs-ian recollection. Okay? And the tree gets the message, and it sends a message back and says, "Yeah, I can do that.". And so they have this trading system with trees. Is that what -- is that what this? Isn't -- doesn't -- don't professors begin to start falling out of chairs when that word gets used regarding plants? And moved around, but always matched in the same way together. So we went back to Monica. I mean, couldn't it just be like that? No. You do. And it's good it was Sunday. The plants would always grow towards the light. [ENRIQUE: This is Enrique Romero from the bordertown of Laredo, Texas. ROBERT: That would be sugar-minerals-sugar-minerals-sugar-minerals-sugar-minerals-sugar-minerals-sugar-minerals-sugar-minerals-sugar-minerals. ROBERT: She found that the one stimulus that would be perfect was MONICA GAGLIANO: A little fan. Except in this case instead of a chair, they've got a little plant-sized box. So ROBERT: He says something about that's the wrong season. ROBERT: She says a timber company would move in and clear cut an entire patch of forest, and then plant some new trees. That is definitely cool. Well, you can see the white stuff is the fungus. So they just went right for the MP3 fake water, not even the actual water? I mean again, it's a tree. My reaction was like, "Oh ****!" Gone. JAD: And is it as dramatic in the opposite direction? 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. SUZANNE SIMARD: They can't photosynthesize. Like, from the trees perspective, how much of their sugar are they giving to the fungus? That is cool. And so we, you know, we've identified these as kind of like hubs in the network. And for the meat substitute, she gave each plant little bit of food. And they're digging and digging and digging. And moved around, but always matched in the same way together. The fact that humans do it in a particular way, it doesn't mean that everyone needs to do it in that way to be able to do it in the first place. So it's not that it couldn't fold up, it's just that during the dropping, it learned that it didn't need to. And what we found was that the trees that were the biggest and the oldest were the most highly connected. I know. So the fungus is giving the tree the minerals. 28. Except in this case instead of a chair, they've got a little plant-sized box. This is Ashley Harding from St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. Our store also offers Grooming, Training, Adoptions, Veterinary and Curbside Pickup. Or even learn? ALVIN UBELL: The glass is not broken. 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. JENNIFER FRAZER: Oh, yeah. 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. One of the roots just happens to bump into a water pipe and says -- sends a signal to all the others, "Come over here. ALVIN UBELL: The tree will wrap its roots around that pipe. 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? One time, the plant literally flew out of the pot and upended with roots exposed. They may have this intelligence, maybe we're just not smart enough yet to figure it out. Like a human would. I don't know. And it's more expensive. 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. Because I have an appointment. JENNIFER FRAZER: An anti-predator reaction? Because if I let you go it's gonna be another 20 minutes until I get to talk. ROBERT: When people first began thinking about these things, and we're talking in the late 1800s, they had no idea what they were or what they did, but ultimately they figured out that these things were very ancient, because if you look at 400-million-year-old fossils of some of the very first plants JENNIFER FRAZER: You can see, even in the roots of these earliest land plants JENNIFER FRAZER: This is a really ancient association. But then, scientists did an experiment where they gave some springtails some fungus to eat. 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. Now, you might think that the plant sends out roots in every direction. So they might remember even for a much longer time than 28 days. Wait a second. And that's just the beginning. This is by the way, what her entire family had done, her dad and her grandparents. One tree goes "Uh-oh." Oh, so this is, like, crucial. JENNIFER FRAZER: Carbon, which is science speak for food. 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. It just kept curling. [laughs]. He was a -- what was he? Truth is, I think on this point she's got a -- she's right. Maybe each root is -- is like a little ear for the plant. JENNIFER FRAZER: So Pavlov started by getting some dogs and some meat and a bell. So the plants are now, you know, buckled in, minding their own business. If you get too wrapped up in your poetic metaphor, you're very likely to be misled and to over-interpret the data. That's a -- learning is something I didn't think plants could do. SUZANNE SIMARD: And, you know, my job was to track how these new plantations would grow. They still remembered. Well, it depends on who you ask. JAD: You're doing the -- like, okay first it was the roots under the ground all connected into a whole hive thing. No question there. So I don't have an issue with that. So after the first few, the plants already realized that that was not necessary. They curve, sometimes they branch. ROBERT: Oh! LINCOLN TAIZ: I think you can be open-minded but still objective. 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. Start of message. Today, Robert drags Jad along ona parade for the surprising feats of brainless plants. She says it was like this moment where she realizes, "Oh, my God! So I don't have a problem. And it's good it was Sunday. Back and forth. Exactly. Visit your local Culver City PetSmart store for essential pet supplies like food, treats and more from top brands. I'll put it down in my fungi. The magnolia tree outside of our house got into the sewer pipes, reached its tentacles into our house and busted the sewage pipe. How does it know which way to turn and grow its roots so that it can find the water? So no plants were actually hurt in this experiment. They can go north, south, east, west, whatever. ROBERT: Okay. And to Annie McEwen and Brenna Farrow who both produced this piece. ROBERT: And the salivation equivalent was the tilt of the plant? Then Monica hoists the plant back up again and drops it again. So I don't have an issue with that. Like, how can a plant -- how does a plant do that? ROBERT: Two very different options for our plant. We were so inconsistent, so clumsy, that the plants were smart to keep playing it safe and closing themselves up. I'm gonna just go there. And I do that in my brain. They run out of energy. I don't know. And I mean, like, really loved the outdoors. So it wasn't touching the dirt at all. They designed from scratch a towering parachute drop in blue translucent Lego pieces. Jad and Robert, they are split on this one. It is like a bank! Enough of that! I don't know if that was the case for your plants. Well, maybe. And so we're up there in this -- in this old forest with this guy. So she decided to conduct her experiment. It's an integral part of DNA. It's now the Wood Wide Web? ROBERT: And that's where the fungus comes in. But then ROY HALLING: Finally! 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. So these trees were basically covered with bags that were then filled with radioactive gas. So I don't have a problem. He's on the right track. ROBERT: 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?". She's working in the timber industry at the time. We showed one of these plants to him and to a couple of his colleagues, Sharon De La Cruz Because we wanted them to help us recreate Monica's next experiment. They shade each other. More information about Sloan at www.sloan.org]. They don't do well in warm temperatures and their needles turn all sickly yellow. JAD: If a plant doesn't have a brain what is choosing where to go? ROBERT: So that's what the tree gives the fungus. That's what she says. Monica's work has actually gotten quite a bit of attention from other plant biologists. Pulled out a is that a root of some sort? I don't really need it all right now. ROBERT: She found that the one stimulus that would be perfect was MONICA GAGLIANO: A little fan. MONICA GAGLIANO: Not really. So there is some water outside of the pipe. And a little wind. They still remembered. They can also send warning signals through the fungus. Again. LARRY UBELL: That -- that's -- that's interesting. So there seemed to be, under the ground, this fungal freeway system connecting one tree to the next to the next to the next. JENNIFER FRAZER: Apparently, she built some sort of apparatus. No boink anymore. I mean, it's a kind of romanticism, I think. MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah, mimosa has been one of the pet plants, I guess, for many scientists for, like, centuries. MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah, tested it in my lab. Landing very comfortably onto a padded base made of foam. ], [JENNIFER FRAZER: Our staff includes Simon Adler, Becca Bressler, Rachael Cusick ], [ALVIN UBELL: David -- David Gebel. In the little springtail bodies there were little tubes growing inside them. A given episode might whirl you through science, legal history, and into the home of someone halfway across the world. Because the only reason why the experiment turned out to be 28 days is because I ran out of time. Robert, I have -- you know what? One time, the plant literally flew out of the pot and upended with roots exposed. We were waiting for the leaves to, you know, stop folding. Again, science writer Jennifer Frazer. 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. Or even learn? ROBERT: So you think that that this -- you think this is a hubris corrector? Or it's just the vibration of the pipe that's making it go toward it. You need the nutrients that are in the soil. A forest can feel like a place of great stillness and quiet. To remember? MONICA GAGLIANO: Light is obviously representing dinner. They have to -- have to edit in this together. I'm a research associate professor at the University of Sydney. 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. That is correct. This is the headphones? It didn't seem to be learning anything. Like the bell for the dog. ROBERT: So the roots can go either left or to the right. Both aiming at the pea plant from the same direction, and the pea plant leans toward them. ALVIN UBELL: In a tangling of spaghetti-like, almost a -- and each one of those lines of spaghetti is squeezing a little bit. And when you measure them, like one study we saw found up to seven miles of this little threading What is this thing? Or even learn? I mean, to say that a plant is choosing a direction, I don't know. ], [JENNIFER FRAZER: My name is Jennifer Frazer. He was a -- what was he? If I want to be a healthy tree and reach for the sky, then I need -- I need rocks in me somehow. As abundant as what was going on above ground. MONICA GAGLIANO: I created these horrible contraptions. AATISH BHATIA: All right. So she takes the plants, she puts them into the parachute drop, she drops them. I go out and I thought there's no one here on Sunday afternoon. JENNIFER FRAZER: Then he would bring them the meat and he would ring a bell. But they do have root hairs. 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? 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. These guys are actually doing it." 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 so now we're down there. It was done by radiolab, called "smarty plants". But maybe it makes her sort of more open-minded than -- than someone who's just looking at a notebook. ROBERT: And then those little tubes will wrap themselves into place. Two very different options for our plant. Each one an ounce, an ounce, an ounce, an ounce, an ounce. All right. That's okay. MONICA GAGLIANO: Exactly. I'm a research associate professor at the University of Sydney. So they didn't. It was magic for me. ROBERT: Eventually, she came back after ROBERT: And they still remembered. LARRY UBELL: It's kind of like a cold glass sitting on your desk, and there's always a puddle at the bottom. I can scream my head off if I want to. 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. ROBERT: Little white threads attached to the roots. Submitted by Irene Kaufman on Sun, 04/08/2018 - 12:58pm. What do you mean? It's an integral part of DNA. . So what do we have in our ears that we use to hear sound? And lignin is full of nitrogen, but also compounds like nitrogen is important in DNA, right? Different kind of signal traveling through the soil? Because I have an appointment. Is that what -- is that what this? Just a boring set of twigs. ROBERT: And she goes into that darkened room with all the pea plants. They'd remember straight away. Like, I don't understand -- learning, as far as I understand it, is something that involves memory and storage. ROBERT: I think that's fair. In 1997, a couple of scientists wrote a paper which describes how fungi JENNIFER FRAZER: Have developed a system for mining. It's like, no, no, I don't do that. I mean, I think there's something to that. I'm gonna just go there. So today we have a triptych of experiments about plants. It's just getting started. You know, it goes back to anthropomorphizing plant behaviors. And then those little tubes will wrap themselves into place. Smarty Plants. JAD: If the -- if the tube system is giving the trees the minerals, how is it getting it, the minerals? A little while back, I had a rather boisterous conversation with these two guys. So you can get -- anybody can get one of these plants, and we did. ROBERT: So you just did what Pavlov did to a plant. JENNIFER FRAZER: Into which she put these sensitive plants. You need the nutrients that are in the soil. MONICA GAGLIANO: I don't know. 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." So that's where these -- the scientists from Princeton come in: Peter, Sharon and Aatish. LATIF: Yeah. They all went closed. And so we're digging away, and Jigs was, you know, looking up with his paws, you know, and looking at us, waiting. She's a forestry professor at the University of British Columbia. So, okay. What do mean, the fungi will give me my sugar back? And so the whole family and uncles and aunts and cousins, we all rush up there. Like a human would. And, you know, my job was to track how these new plantations would grow. This is Ashley Harding from St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. You got the plant to associate the fan with food. The fungi needs sugar to build their bodies, the same way that we use our food to build our bodies. The glass is not broken. Remember I told you how trees make sugar? Nothing delicious at all. It's like every time I close my eyes, you're coming at it from a different direction. Because tree roots and a lot of plant roots are not actually very good at doing what you think they're doing. She's not gonna use hot water because you don't want to cook your plants, you know? Let him talk. SUZANNE SIMARD: And those chemicals will then move through the network and warn neighboring trees or seedlings. Then he would bring them the meat and he would ring a bell. So Monica moves the fans to a new place one more time. However, if that's all they had was carbon ROBERT: That's Roy again. Nothing delicious at all. Let me just back up for a second so that you can -- to set the scene for you. If she's going to do this experiment, most likely she's going to use cold water. "I'm under attack!". Well, it depends on who you ask. She went into the forest, got some trees. Jad and Robert, theyare split on this one. 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. 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. They run out of energy. Yeah, absolutely. MONICA GAGLIANO: My reaction was, "Oh ****!" Favorite 46 Add to Repost 7. But over the next two decades, we did experiment after experiment after experiment that verified that story. You got the plant to associate the fan with food. I was like, "Oh, my God! And a little wind. She's not gonna use hot water because you don't want to cook your plants, you know? LARRY UBELL: Yeah, and I have done inspections where roots were coming up through the pipe into the house. ROBERT: 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. So actually, I think you were very successful with your experiment. And I do that in my brain. No. I am the blogger of The Artful Amoeba at Scientific American. SUZANNE SIMARD: Potassium and calcium and ROBERT: Like, can a tree stand up straight without minerals? And so I was really excited. Little fan goes on, little light goes on, both aiming at the pea plant from the same direction. MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah, plants really like light, you know? The magnolia tree outside of our house got into the sewer pipes, reached its tentacles into our house and busted the sewage pipe. Smaller than an eyelash. That's the place where I can remember things. Like, would they figure it out faster this time? ROBERT: Well of course, there could be a whole -- any number of reasons why, you know, one tree's affected by another. 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? ROBERT: A little while back, I had a rather boisterous conversation with these two guys. And the -- I'm gonna mix metaphors here, the webs it weaves. They may have this intelligence, maybe we're just not smart enough yet to figure it out. In my brain. Never mind. They're sort of flea-sized and they spend lots of time munching leaves on the forest floor. ROBERT: And then she waited a few more days and came back. Ring, meat, eat. LARRY UBELL: No, I don't because she may come up against it, people who think that intelligence is unique to humans. And remember, if you're a springtail, don't talk to strange mushrooms. 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.". Never mind.". Then she takes the little light and the little fan and moves them to the other side of the plant. Enough of that! So its resources, its legacy will move into the mycorrhizal network into neighboring trees. And then Monica would Just about, you know, seven or eight inches. And I remember it was Sunday, because I started screaming in my lab. Support Radiolab today atRadiolab.org/donate. 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. ], Maria Matasar-Padilla is our Managing Director. Jul 30, 2016. You mean you got down on all fours and just And so my mom always talks about how she had to constantly be giving me worm medicine because I was -- I always had worms. ROBERT: Science writer Jen Frazer gave us kind of the standard story. ROBERT: These sensitive hairs he argues, would probably be able to feel that tiny difference. Fan, light, lean. I found a little water! No. And it's more expensive. I thought -- I thought tree roots just sort of did -- like, I thought -- I always imagined tree roots were kind of like straws. MONICA GAGLIANO: I remember going in at the uni on a Sunday afternoon. ROBERT: But then, scientists did an experiment where they gave some springtails some fungus to eat. All in all, turns out one tree was connected to 47 other trees all around it. And the plant still went to the place where the pipe was not even in the dirt? SUZANNE SIMARD: Into the roots, and then into the microbial community, which includes the mushroom team, yeah. They need light to grow. ROBERT: A little while back, I had a rather boisterous conversation with these two guys. The bell, the meat and the salivation. Birds, please. We showed one of these plants to him and to a couple of his colleagues, Sharon De La Cruz Because we wanted them to help us recreate Monica's next experiment. Robert Krulwich. I mean, this is going places. Which has, you know, for dogs has nothing to do with meat. If the -- if the tube system is giving the trees the minerals, how is it getting it, the minerals? He's the only springtail with a trench coat and a fedora. The roots of this tree of course can go any way they want to go. My reaction was, "Oh ****!" And with these two stimuli, she put the plants, the little pea plants through a kind of training regime. The plants would always grow towards the light. PETER LANDGREN: Little seatbelt for him for the ride down. Into the roots, and then into the microbial community, which includes the mushroom team, yeah. 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. And for a long time, they were thought of as plants. Would they stay in the tree, or would they go down to the roots? JENNIFER FRAZER: Yeah, it might run out of fuel. let's do it! JENNIFER FRAZER: 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: I have even -- I can go better than even that. 526; 4 years ago; Smarty Plants by Radiolab. I guess you could call it a mimosa plant drop box. They still did not close when she dropped them. So they can't move. And every day that goes by, I have less of an issue from the day before. Picasso! Hobbled, really. JAD: This -- this actually happened to me. JAD: Would you say that the plant is seeing the sun? WHRO is Hampton Roads' local NPR / PBS Station. [ANSWERING MACHINE: To play the message, press two. LARRY UBELL: We are the principals of Accurate Building Inspectors of Brooklyn, New York. ROBERT: The plants would always grow towards the light. JAD: And to Annie McEwen and Brenna Farrow who both produced this piece. If a nosy deer happens to bump into it, the mimosa plant Curls all its leaves up against its stem. ROBERT: So for three days, three times a day, she would shine these little blue lights on the plants. Is your dog objecting to my analysis? ROBERT: This is the fungus. So we know that Douglas fir will take -- a dying Douglas fir will send carbon to a neighboring Ponderosa pine. They still did not close when she dropped them. LINCOLN TAIZ: It's a very interesting experiment, and I really want to see whether it's correct or not. They can't take up CO2. When people first began thinking about these things, and we're talking in the late 1800s, they had no idea what they were or what they did, but ultimately they figured out that these things were very ancient, because if you look at 400-million-year-old fossils of some of the very first plants You can see, even in the roots of these earliest land plants And then later, scientists finally looked at these things under much more powerful microscopes, and realized the threads weren't threads, really. Yeah, and I have done inspections where roots were coming up through the pipe into the house. Pics! Yeah, it might run out of fuel. JAD: No, I actually, like even this morning it's already like poof! I go out and I thought there's no one here on Sunday afternoon. I go out and I thought there's no one here on Sunday afternoon. Give it to the new -- well, that's what she saying. To remember? Or at the time actually, she was a very little girl who loved the outdoors. That is definitely cool. SUZANNE SIMARD: We had a Geiger counter out there. A tree needs something else. 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. They play with sound and story in a way that's incredibly intriguing, I was instantly hooked with More Perfect. Yeah, I know. LATIF: It's like Snow White and The Seven Tubes or something. ROBERT: I wanted to talk to them because, as building inspectors they -- there's something they see over and over and over. JENNIFER FRAZER: These little soil particles. Because after dropping them 60 times, she then shook them left to right and they instantly folded up again. Here's the water.". You give me -- like, I want wind, birds, chipmunks Like, I'm not, like, your sound puppet here. So they didn't. JAD: That is cool. I think there are some cases where romanticizing something could possibly lead you to some interesting results. They learned something. 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