Screaming plants: Ever heard of screaming plants? Will there be pressure for them?
Usually when humans are stressed when they get angry, we see them yelling at others but the anger caused by this stress is also common in animals. But it is common for humans and animals to scream but have you ever heard plants scream? Moreover, those plants also get stressed? Experts say that when they are stressed, they scream loudly. Why are plants stressed? Do you doubt how they scream but they say it is true.
When the plants don’t get enough water, they scream loudly when they have other problems. But no one has heard the screams coming from the plants like this. Even if we hear it, it must be the sound coming from the plants due to the wind.
But what is the reality? Scientists say that plants make noises and screams with a frequency that humans cannot hear or recognize.. For this, scientists say that humans cannot hear them so easily.
When plants don’t get water, they emit a ‘scream’ with a frequency that humans can’t hear, a new study says. According to research published in the journal Cell, plants can also produce airborne sounds in response to stress. Tel Aviv University experts researched tomato, tobacco plants and other plants and found that they make sounds. Although humans can’t hear those sounds, they found that different kinds of creatures do hear them.
Plants are said to be sessile organisms which means they depend on herbivores. As a result, they cannot withstand stress, researchers say. Researchers who have looked at the biochemical responses in plants have observed extraordinary changes in their growth when they are provided with better light, gravity, temperature, desirable chemicals and plenty of water. It is said that if these sound signals are recognized and the respective problems are prevented immediately, great changes will occur in the growth and reproduction of plants.
It is said that plants interact with other organisms like fungi and bacteria to cope and resist stress. In the past, researchers have recorded the sounds of honey production and succeeded in determining which plants produce the most honey. Currently, the team led by Lilach Hadani, who conducted the research, is recording the sounds emitted by tomato, tobacco plants and various species of plants into the air.
He said that these sounds are ultrasonic in the range of 20-100 kilohertz.. Due to this, humans are unable to hear. They chose a soil with less than 5 percent water content to conduct the research. The sounds made by the plants were detected there. In this research, stressed plants emit more sounds than non-stressed plants. Using machine learning algorithms, the researchers were able to determine not only which species produced which sound, but also what kind of stress it was under.
Researchers were unable to identify these sounds in all plants. Found in only a few. Whether research like this will help future food production is questionable. Scientists say that plants can be protected on the basis of sounds. After further experiments, the full details will be revealed.