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And so the whole family and uncles and aunts and cousins, we all rush up there. 46 7. ROBERT: What's its job? JENNIFER FRAZER: The whole thing immediately closes up and makes it look like, "Oh, there's no plant here. So he brought them some meat. Never mind.". I found a little water! MONICA GAGLIANO: It's a very biased view that humans have in particular towards others. ", ROBERT: So the deer's like, "Oh, well. In my brain. 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. Both aiming at the pea plant from the same direction, and the pea plant leans toward them. ROBERT: Then of course because it's the BBC, they take a picture of it. Then Monica hoists the plant back up again and drops it again. 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. And then when times are hard, that fungi will give me my sugar back and I can start growing again. ROBERT: What kind of creature is this thing? No. Wait. Of Accurate Building Inspectors. They're switched on. It's as if the individual trees were somehow thinking ahead to the needs of the whole forest. JENNIFER FRAZER: The fungi needs sugar to build their bodies, the same way that we use our food to build our bodies. Because what she does next is three days later, she takes these plants back into the lab. JAD: So she's saying they remembered for almost a month? 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. And then someone has to count. Why waste hot water? MONICA GAGLIANO: I created these horrible contraptions. 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. No. So today we have a triptych of experiments about plants. So they might remember even for a much longer time than 28 days. Well, it depends on who you ask. Peering down at the plants under the red glow of her headlamp. 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. And so they have this trading system with trees. And if you go to too many rock concerts, you can break these hairs and that leads to permanent hearing loss, which is bad. Like, the plant is hunting? These sensitive hairs he argues, would probably be able to feel that tiny difference. 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: So the beetles don't want to eat them. I mean, I think there's something to that. 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. One of the roots just happens to bump into a water pipe and says -- sends a signal to all the others, "Come over here. ROBERT: We, as you know, built your elevator. I'm a professor emeritus of plant biology at UC Santa Cruz. 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 for the meat substitute, she gave each plant little bit of food. "I'm under attack!". And the pea plants are left alone to sit in this quiet, dark room feeling the breeze. So -- so carbon will move from that dying tree. Radiolab is supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, enhancing public understanding of Science and Technology in the modern world. They don't do well in warm temperatures and their needles turn all sickly yellow. Liquid rocks. The same one that are used in computers like, you know, really tiny. So you just did what Pavlov did to a plant. JAD: This -- this actually happened to me. It was like, "Oh, I might disturb my plants!" No, it's far more exciting than that. 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. ROBERT: That's a -- learning is something I didn't think plants could do. So I don't have an issue with that. Oh, one more thing. It'd be all random. My reaction was, "Oh ****!" We were so inconsistent, so clumsy, that the plants were smart to keep playing it safe and closing themselves up. SUZANNE SIMARD: Yeah, he was a curious dog. We went to the Bronx, and when we went up there, we -- there was this tall man waiting for us. I mean, you've heard that. I mean, to say that a plant is choosing a direction, I don't know. So it wasn't touching the dirt at all. ROBERT: And when you look at the map, what you see are circles sprouting lines and then connecting to other circles also sprouting lines. They're sort of flea-sized and they spend lots of time munching leaves on the forest floor. So that voice belongs to Aatish Bhatia, who is with Princeton University's Council on Science and Technology. ROBERT: And the salivation equivalent was the tilt of the plant? Landing very comfortably onto a padded base made of foam. This is the headphones? JENNIFER FRAZER: Well, 25 percent of it ended up in the tree. This is like metaphor is letting in the light as opposed to shutting down the blinds. JENNIFER FRAZER: From a particular direction. I mean, I think there's something to that. She thinks that they somehow remembered all those drops and it never hurt, so they didn't fold up any more. [ASHLEY: Hi. What do mean, the fungi will give me my sugar back? ROBERT: So that voice belongs to Aatish Bhatia, who is with Princeton University's Council on Science and Technology. Or even learn? Also thanks to Christy Melville and to Emerald O'Brien and to Andres O'Hara and to Summer Rayne. And after not a whole lot of drops the plant, she noticed, stopped closing its leaves. I mean, I -- it's a kind of Romanticism, I think. And the pea plant leans toward them. Like, how can a plant -- how does a plant do that? MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah, I know. What happened to you didn't happen to us. That apparently -- jury's still out. 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. Very similar to the sorts of vitamins and minerals that humans need. JENNIFER FRAZER: Yeah, it might run out of fuel. You just used a very interesting word. Radiolab - Smarty Plants . JENNIFER FRAZER: Then he would bring them the meat and he would ring a bell. Ring, meat, eat. That is actually a clue in what turns out to be a deep, deep mystery. ROBERT: And not too far away from this tree, underground, there is a water pipe. Walker Wolff. And then those little tubes will wrap themselves into place. 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. And then Monica would Just about, you know, seven or eight inches. The idea was to drop them again just to see, like, the difference between the first time you learn something and the next time. Annie McWen or McEwen ], [JENNIFER FRAZER: Latif Nasser, Malissa O'Donnell, Arianne Wack ], [ALVIN UBELL: Pat Walter and Molly Webber. It's like a savings account? So they might remember even for a much longer time than 28 days. I know -- I know you -- I know you don't. You know, one of those little jeweler's glasses? That was my reaction. ROBERT: And she goes into that darkened room with all the pea plants. JAD: Yeah, absolutely. MONICA GAGLIANO: I wonder if that was maybe a bit too much. 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. 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.". So otherwise they can't photosynthesize. JAD: What exchange would that be, Robert? LARRY UBELL: Me first. And the tree happens to be a weeping willow. 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. If the -- if the tube system is giving the trees the minerals, how is it getting it, the minerals? So there is some water outside of the pipe. JAD: Is it just pulling it from the soil? If you get too wrapped up in your poetic metaphor, you're very likely to be misled and to over-interpret the data. It's 10 o'clock and I have to go. ROBERT: So that voice belongs to Aatish Bhatia, who is with Princeton University's Council on Science and Technology. ROBERT: Give it to the new -- well, that's what she saying. JENNIFER FRAZER: Plants are really underrated. ROBERT: It won't be a metaphor in just a moment. Little fan goes on, the light goes on. 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, . The problem is is with plants. They somehow have a dye, and don't ask me how they know this or how they figured it out, but they have a little stain that they can put on the springtails to tell if they're alive or dead. So we're really -- like this is -- we're really at the very beginning of this. ROBERT: After three days of this training regime, it is now time to test the plants with just the fan, no light. And not too far away from this tree, underground, there is a water pipe. Do you really need a brain to sense the world around you? "I'm under attack!". Science writer Jen Frazer gave us the kind of the standard story. It's 10 o'clock and I have to go. JENNIFER FRAZER: This all has a history, of course. I mean, this is going places. MONICA GAGLIANO: Light is obviously representing dinner. Have you hugged your houseplant today? She took that notion out of the garden into her laboratory. I mean, I think there's something to that. They're not experiencing extra changes, for example. ROBERT: And right in the middle of the yard is a tree. So the plants are now, you know, buckled in, minding their own business. LATIF: Yeah. And with these two stimuli, she put the plants, the little pea plants through a kind of training regime. But let me just -- let me give it a try. So let's go to the first. MONICA GAGLIANO: Like for example, my plants were all in environment-controlled rooms, which is not a minor detail. ROBERT: These sensitive hairs he argues, would probably be able to feel that tiny difference. And is it as dramatic in the opposite direction? Apparently, she built some sort of apparatus. Ring, meat, eat. They remembered what had happened three days before, that dropping didn't hurt, that they didn't have to fold up. Maybe not with the helmet, but yeah. Why is this network even there? You know, it goes back to anthropomorphizing plant behaviors. Earn PetSmart Treats loyalty points with every purchase and get members-only discounts. Don't interrupt. Different kind of signal traveling through the soil? 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. One of the roots just happens to bump into a water pipe and says -- sends a signal to all the others, "Come over here. I'll put it down in my fungi. 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. It's yours." ], [ALVIN UBELL: Maria Mata -- Maria Matasar ], [LARRY UBELL: Maria Matasar-Padilla is our Managing Director. I mean, couldn't it just be like that? MONICA GAGLIANO: I wonder if that was maybe a bit too much. The Ubells see this happening all the time. And I mean, like, really loved the outdoors. And the classic case of this is if you go back a few centuries ago, someone noticed that plants have sex. JENNIFER FRAZER: If you look at these particles under the microscope, you can see the little tunnels. So she takes the plants, she puts them into the parachute drop, she drops them. Now, can you -- can you imagine what we did wrong? So you're like a metaphor cop with a melty heart. ], [ROY HALLING: Matt Kielty, Robert Krulwich, Annie McEwen, Andy Mills, Latif Nasser, Malissa O'Donnell. ROBERT: What do you mean? Yes, because she knew that scientists had proposed years before, that maybe there's an underground economy that exists among trees that we can't see. PETER LANDGREN: Little seatbelt for him for the ride down. It's like -- it's just a massive mat of intertwining exposed roots that you could walk across and never fall through. ROBERT: She took that notion out of the garden into her laboratory. ALVIN UBELL: Testing one, two. He gives us a magnifying glass. ROBERT: Science writer Jen Frazer gave us the kind of the standard story. The magnolia tree outside of our house got into the sewer pipes, reached its tentacles into our house and busted the sewage pipe. But white, translucent and hairy, sort of. So you just did what Pavlov did to a plant. Like, two percent or 0.00000001 percent? I know. They're switched on. ROBERT: She found that the one stimulus that would be perfect was MONICA GAGLIANO: A little fan. MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah, plants really like light, you know? ROBERT: So you just did what Pavlov did to a plant. SUZANNE SIMARD: So we know that Douglas fir will take -- a dying Douglas fir will send carbon to a neighboring Ponderosa pine. And we can move it up, and we can drop it. ROBERT: That there was a kind of a moral objection to thinking this way. MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah, tested it in my lab. Or even learn? All right, that's it, I think. Isn't that what you do? Thud. But they do have root hairs. And right in the middle of the yard is a tree. And the salivation equivalent was the tilt of the plant? MONICA GAGLIANO: Picasso! In this case, a little blue LED light. She thinks that they somehow remembered all those drops and it never hurt, so they didn't fold up any more. JENNIFER FRAZER: So Pavlov started by getting some dogs and some meat and a bell. Right? So maybe the root hairs, which are always found right at the growing tips of plant roots, maybe plant roots are like little ears. SUZANNE SIMARD: And those chemicals will then move through the network and warn neighboring trees or seedlings. In a tangling of spaghetti-like, almost a -- and each one of those lines of spaghetti is squeezing a little bit. So today we have a triptych of experiments about plants. Listen to one of these podcasts: (Read the summaries and choose the one you want) Radiolab - Update: CRISPR Radiolab - Cellmates Radiolab - Shrink Radiolab - From Tree to Shining Tree Radiolab - Antibodies Part 1: CRISPR Radiolab - Galapagos Radiolab - Smarty Plants Radiolab - Super Cool For the main post please include: Title Because what she does next is three days later, she takes these plants back into the lab. The tree has a lot of sugar. Fan first, light after. He was a -- what was he? And right in the middle of the yard is a tree. Enough of that! MONICA GAGLIANO: Yeah, mimosa has been one of the pet plants, I guess, for many scientists for, like, centuries. 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. 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. Ring, meat, eat. Like what she saw in the outhouse? Little fan goes on, little light goes on, both aiming at the pea plant from the same direction. 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. St. Andrew's Magazine Dr. Aatish Bhatia Inspires Students & Faculty. This is by the way, what her entire family had done, her dad and her grandparents. Now, you might think that the plant sends out roots in every direction. But now we know, after having looked at their DNA, that fungi are actually very closely related to animals. And then she waited a few more days and came back. I've been looking around lately, and I know that intelligence is not unique to humans. ROBERT: Truth is, I think on this point she's got a -- she's right. ALVIN UBELL: How much longer? Gebel. 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? Seasonally. The same one that are used in computers like, you know, really tiny. Picasso! 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. ROBERT: That is actually a clue in what turns out to be a deep, deep mystery. ROBERT: So for three days, three times a day, she would shine these little blue lights on the plants. I mean, can you remember what you were doing a month ago? ROBERT: But instead of dogs, she had pea plants in a dark room. They learned something. Bye everybody. Because if I let you go it's gonna be another 20 minutes until I get to talk. 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. So I don't have a problem. ROBERT: So I think what she would argue is that we kind of proved her point. And I need a bird, a lot of birds, actually. So what does the tree do? They still did not close when she dropped them. ], [JENNIFER FRAZER: Soren Wheeler is Senior Editor. So otherwise they can't photosynthesize. 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.". Just read about plants having brains and doing things that we honestly do not expect them. This is Roy Halling, researcher specializing in fungi at the New York Botanical Garden. Is that what -- is that what this? Pics! I mean, it's -- like, when a plant bends toward sunlight. I guess you could call it a mimosa plant drop box. Jad and Robert, they are split on this one. ROBERT: Okay. Exactly. So now, they had the radioactive particles inside their trunks and their branches. So she decided to conduct her experiment. ROBERT: So what they're saying is even if she's totally sealed the pipe so there's no leak at all, the difference in temperature will create some condensation on the outside. ROBERT: Nothing happened at all. I can scream my head off if I want to. ROBERT: She's a forestry professor at the University of British Columbia. ROBERT: And for the meat substitute, she gave each plant little bit of food. by Radiolab Follow. Each one an ounce, an ounce, an ounce, an ounce, an ounce. It's okay, puppy. They learned something. They may have this intelligence, maybe we're just not smart enough yet to figure it out. My reaction was like, "Oh ****!" 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