And there was a lot of skepticism at the time. It's kind of like a cold glass sitting on your desk and there's always a puddle at the bottom. She says one of the weirdest parts of this though, is when sick trees give up their food, the food doesn't usually go to their kids or even to trees of the same species. Do you really need a brain to sense the world around you? And then all the other ones go in the same direction. Each one an ounce, an ounce, an ounce, an ounce, an ounce. Do you really need a brain to sense the world around you? ROBERT: The fungus were literally sucking the nitrogen out of the springtails, and it was too late to get away. JAD: So you couldn't replicate what she saw. ROBERT: And then she waited a few more days and came back. I'm sorry? ROBERT: Oh, well that's a miracle. Me first. And I met a plant biologist who's gonna lead that parade. There are multiple ways of doing one thing, right? One tree goes "Uh-oh." And I mean, like, really loved the outdoors. 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. LARRY UBELL: I'm not giving my age. ROBERT: Is your dog objecting to my analysis? And again. 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. It's okay. Now, can you -- can you imagine what we did wrong? MONICA GAGLIANO: Would the plant do the same? ROBERT: Huh. Visit your local Culver City PetSmart store for essential pet supplies like food, treats and more from top brands. It's okay. You need the nutrients that are in the soil. And 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. MONICA GAGLIANO: So, you know, I'm in the dark. 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. I mean, can you remember what you were doing a month ago? LARRY UBELL: No, I don't because she may come up against it, people who think that intelligence is unique to humans. So there's an oak tree right there. What is the tree giving back to the fungus? No, no, no, no, no. It's yours." They remembered what had happened three days before, that dropping didn't hurt, that they didn't have to fold up. He shoves away the leaves, he shoves away the topsoil. Our store also offers Grooming, Training, Adoptions, Veterinary and Curbside Pickup. 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. ], [JENNIFER FRAZER: This is Jennifer Frazer, and I'm a freelance science writer and blogger of The Artful Amoeba at Scientific American. Right? Plants are really underrated. And what she discovered is that all these trees, all these trees that were of totally different species were sharing their food underground. 2018. So now, they had the radioactive particles inside their trunks and their branches. 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. This is Ashley Harding from St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. They're switched on. Which by the way, is definitely not a plant. Radiolab - Smarty Plants. And then I would cover them in plastic bags. Because tree roots and a lot of plant roots are not actually very good at doing what you think they're doing. They can also send warning signals through the fungus. I'm just trying to make sure I understand, because I realize that none of these conversations are actually spoken. I don't want that.". And I do that in my brain. And we can move it up, and we can drop it. MONICA GAGLIANO: Would the plant do the same? They look just like mining tunnels. So I don't have a problem. ROBERT: Packets of minerals. Let me just back up for a second so that you can -- to set the scene for you. And not too far away from this tree, underground, there is a water pipe. A little while back, I had a rather boisterous conversation with these two guys. So I think what she would argue is that we kind of proved her point. No matter how amazing I think that the results are, for some reason people just don't think plants are interesting. 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. LARRY UBELL: I'm not giving my age. /locations/california/culver-city/5399-sepulveda-blvd-bank-atm/ MONICA GAGLIANO: Landing very comfortably onto a padded base made of foam. Every one of them. JAD: Coming up on the Plant Parade, we get to the heart -- or better yet, the root -- of a very specific type of plant. 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. JAD: So they just went right for the MP3 fake water, not even the actual water? This is the plant and pipe mystery. That's the place where I remember things. But then ROY HALLING: Finally! You know, it goes back to anthropomorphizing plant behaviors. 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. Here's the water.". And they, you know, they push each other away so they can get to the sky. We are the principals of Accurate Building Inspectors of Brooklyn, New York. So it wasn't touching the dirt at all. Like so -- and I think that, you know, the whole forest then, there's an intelligence there that's beyond just the species. ], Dylan Keefe is our Director of Sound Design. LATIF: It's like a bank? Or even learn? They start producing chemicals that taste really bad. This is the headphones? And she says this time they relaxed almost immediately. ROBERT: Monica's work has actually gotten quite a bit of attention from other plant biologists. 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 brain-centered worldview on its head through a series of clever experiments that show plants doing things we never would've imagined. ROBERT: That is correct. Now, it turns out that they're networked, and together they're capable of doing things, of behaviors, forestrial behaviors, that are deeply new. 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. If you get too wrapped up in your poetic metaphor, you're very likely to be misled and to over-interpret the data. And if you go to too many rock concerts, you can break these hairs and that leads to permanent hearing loss, which is bad. 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 . Listen to Radiolab: Smarty Plants, an episode of Wilderness Radio, easily on Podbay - the best podcast player on the web. So its resources, its legacy will move into the mycorrhizal network into neighboring trees. Oh, hunting for water. They were actually JENNIFER FRAZER: Tubes. 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: 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? The other important thing we figured out is that, as those trees are injured and dying, they'll dump their carbon into their neighbors. And not too far away from this tree, underground, there is a water pipe. It's like every time I close my eyes, you're coming at it from a different direction. LARRY UBELL: Or it's just the vibration of the pipe that's making it go toward it. We dropped. 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. I mean, I think there's something to that. In the state of California, a medicinal marijuana cultivation license allows for the cultivation of up to 99 plants. 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. Pretty much like the concept of Pavlov with his dog applied. And right in the middle of the yard is a tree. In my brain. LARRY UBELL: Or it's just the vibration of the pipe that's making it go toward it. And the tree gets the message, and it sends a message back and says, "Yeah, I can do that.". Remember that the roots of these plants can either go one direction towards the sound of water in a pipe, or the other direction to the sound of silence. And not too far away from this tree, underground, there is a water pipe. MONICA GAGLIANO: Like for example, my plants were all in environment-controlled rooms, which is not a minor detail. It's like, no, no, I don't do that. This happens to a lot of people. So they can't move. LARRY UBELL: It's kind of like a cold glass sitting on your desk and there's always a puddle at the bottom. MONICA GAGLIANO: Exactly, which is pretty amazing. Share. 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. Along with a home-inspection duo, a science writer, and some enterprising scientists at Princeton University, wedig into the work of evolutionaryecologist Monica Gagliano, who turns ourbrain-centered worldview on its head through a series of clever experiments that show plants doing things we never would've imagined. 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. And moved around, but always matched in the same way together. And ROBERT: Since he was so deep down in there. I know -- I know you -- I know you don't. I mean, to say that a plant is choosing a direction, I don't know. And again. People speculated about this, but no one had actually proved it in nature in the woods until Suzanne shows up. They're father and son. And so they have this trading system with trees. LARRY UBELL: All right, my hypothesis is that what happens is LARRY UBELL: Can I -- can I have a few minutes? So we are going to meet a beautiful little plant called a mimosa pudica, which is a perfectly symmetrical plant with leaves on either side of a central stem. Close. Okay? To remember? 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. These guys are actually doing it." The next one goes, "Uh-oh." Today, Robert drags Jad along on a parade for the surprising feats of brainless plants. ROBERT: And she was willing to entertain the possibility that plants can do something like hear. They're switched on. say they're very curious, but want to see these experiments repeated. And the tubes branch and sometimes they reconnect. The fungi needs sugar to build their bodies, the same way that we use our food to build our bodies. One time, the plant literally flew out of the pot and upended with roots exposed. The idea was to drop them again just to see, like, the difference between the first time you learn something and the next time. I go out and I thought there's no one here on Sunday afternoon. Well, it depends on who you ask. They definitely don't have a brain. Yeah, and I have done inspections where roots were coming up through the pipe into the house. I don't know where you were that day. ], [JENNIFER FRAZER: Our staff includes Simon Adler, Becca Bressler, Rachael Cusick ], [ALVIN UBELL: David -- David Gebel. Fan, light, lean. Five, four, three, two, one, drop! His name is Roy Halling. Special thanks to Dr. Teresa Ryan of the University of British Columbia, Faculty of Forestry, to our intern Stephanie Tam, to Roy Halling and the Bronx Botanical Garden, and to Stephenson Swanson there. ROBERT: They're father and son. ROBERT: A little while back, I had a rather boisterous conversation with these two guys. Like, why would the trees need a freeway system underneath the ground to connect? We had a Geiger counter out there. 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. Smarty Plants Radiolab | Last.fm Read about Smarty Plants by Radiolab and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. JENNIFER FRAZER: Into which she put these sensitive plants. Her use of metaphor. So I don't have a problem. It'd be all random. JENNIFER FRAZER: From a particular direction. Which by the way, is definitely not a plant. Birds, please. let's do it! Like, I don't understand -- learning, as far as I understand it, is something that involves memory and storage. Wait. SUZANNE SIMARD: Well, when I was a kid, my family spent every summer in the forest. ROBERT: So for three days, three times a day, she would shine these little blue lights on the plants. Thanks to Jennifer Frazer who helped us make sense of all this. ROBERT: So that's what the tree gives the fungus. Start of message. Two very different options for our plant. It's not leaking. It's a family business. ROBERT: And I wanted to talk to them because, as building inspectors they -- there's something they see over and over and over. And to Annie McEwen and Brenna Farrow who both produced this piece. Just a boring set of twigs. Maybe each root is -- is like a little ear for the plant. And the classic case of this is if you go back a few centuries ago, someone noticed that plants have sex. It involves a completely separate organism I haven't mentioned yet. I purposely removed the chance for a moisture gradient. Super interesting how alive our plants really are! JENNIFER FRAZER: Then he would bring them the meat and he would ring a bell. 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. One time, the plant literally flew out of the pot and upended with roots exposed. 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. ROBERT: Now, you might think that the plant sends out roots in every direction. They would salivate and then eat the meat. Okay. But we are in the home inspection business. To remember? I've been looking around lately, and I know that intelligence is not unique to humans. MONICA GAGLIANO: Landing very comfortably onto a padded base made of foam. That's okay. Like, the plant is hunting? I know -- I know you -- I know you don't. ROBERT: Actually, Monica's dog leads perfectly into her third experiment, which again will be with a plant. Jad and Robert, they are split on this one. So just give me some birds. That's the place where I remember things. I thought -- I thought tree roots just sort of did -- like, I thought -- I always imagined tree roots were kind of like straws. And for the meat substitute, she gave each plant little bit of food. If a nosy deer happens to bump into it, the mimosa plant Curls all its leaves up against its stem. And I know lots of kids do that, but I was especially ROBERT: I'm sorry? I can scream my head off if I want to. I'm 84. Radiolab: Smarty Plants. JENNIFER FRAZER: The fungi needs sugar to build their bodies, the same way that we use our food to build our bodies. They curve, sometimes they branch. ROBERT: He's got lots of questions about her research methods, but really his major complaint is -- is her language. Yeah, mimosa has been one of the pet plants, I guess, for many scientists for, like, centuries. Can the tree feel you ripping the roots out like that? ALVIN UBELL: And the tree happens to be a weeping willow. So she's got her plants in the pot, and we're going to now wait to see what happens. ROBERT: He's got lots of questions about her research methods, but really his major complaint is -- is her language. And again. Monica's work has actually gotten quite a bit of attention from other plant biologists. Are going to make me rethink my stance on plants. JAD: Where would the -- a little plant even store a memory? JENNIFER FRAZER: Yeah, it might run out of fuel. I guess you could call it a mimosa plant drop box. I've been looking around lately, and I know that intelligence is not unique to humans. They're father and son. We're sitting on the exposed root system, which is like -- it is like a mat. JENNIFER FRAZER: Minerals from the soil. 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: 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. So it wasn't touching the dirt at all. If you look at these particles under the microscope, you can see the little tunnels. ROBERT: So let's go to the first. JENNIFER FRAZER: Plants are really underrated. They sort of put them all together in a dish, and then they walked away. ROBERT: And I met a plant biologist who's gonna lead that parade. Here's the water.". It's a very biased view that humans have in particular towards others. They can't take up CO2. So its resources, its legacy will move into the mycorrhizal network into neighboring trees. ROBERT: This happens to a lot of people. I mean, it's a kind of romanticism, I think. JENNIFER FRAZER: This all has a history, of course. ROBERT: She found that the one stimulus that would be perfect was MONICA GAGLIANO: A little fan. But instead of dogs, she had pea plants in a dark room. But let me just -- let me give it a try. 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. Nothing delicious at all. Give it to the new -- well, that's what she saying. ROBERT: Eventually, she came back after ROBERT: And they still remembered. Like, they don't have ears or a brain or anything like, they couldn't hear like we hear. Let him talk. This is the plant and pipe mystery. Absolutely not. On the outside of the pipe. He was a, not a wiener dog. [laughs] You mean, like the World Wide Web? MONICA GAGLIANO: I purposely removed the chance for a moisture gradient. I don't know. 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. I mean, what? I mean, it's a kind of romanticism, I think. ROBERT: You don't know what your dog was? Ring, meat, eat. That's a -- learning is something I didn't think plants could do. It's a -- it's a three-pronged answer. My reaction was, "Oh ****!" JAD: That is cool. Or maybe slower? But we are in the home inspection business. Like the bell for the dog. Then she takes the little light and the little fan and moves them to the other side of the plant. JAD: Where would the -- a little plant even store a memory? Like, two percent or 0.00000001 percent? Why waste hot water? 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. It turns that carbon into sugar, which it uses to make its trunk and its branches, anything thick you see on a tree is just basically air made into stuff. I found a little water! This is the fungus. ROBERT: That's a -- learning is something I didn't think plants could do. I gotta say, doing this story, this is the part that knocked me silly. And so we, you know, we've identified these as kind of like hubs in the network. 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. Why waste hot water? Actually, Monica's dog leads perfectly into her third experiment, which again will be with a plant. Fan, light, lean. Picture one of those parachute drops that they have at the -- at state fairs or amusement parks where you're hoisted up to the top. This is very like if you had a little helmet with a light on it. I found a little water! Pulled out a is that a root of some sort? The roots of this tree of course can go any way they want to go. ROBERT: So if a beetle were to invade the forest, the trees tell the next tree over, "Here come the --" like Paul Revere, sort of? So we are going to meet a beautiful little plant called a mimosa pudica, which is a perfectly symmetrical plant with leaves on either side of a central stem. The tree will wrap its roots around that pipe. SUZANNE SIMARD: 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: So now, they had the radioactive particles inside their trunks and their branches. SUZANNE SIMARD: When I was a little kid, I would be in the forest and I'd just eat the forest floor. 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. The glass is not broken. And if you don't have one, by default you can't do much in general. 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. 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. 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. STEPHANIE TAM: Can the tree feel you ripping the roots out like that? ROBERT: That there was a kind of a moral objection to thinking this way. LARRY UBELL: Good. Well, I asked Suzanne about that. But they do have root hairs. I go out and I thought there's no one here on Sunday afternoon. SUZANNE SIMARD: And there was a lot of skepticism at the time. ROBERT: I wanted to talk to them because, as building inspectors they -- there's something they see over and over and over. And therefore she might, in the end, see something that no one else would see. Favorite 46 Add to Repost 7. And it's more expensive. I thought okay, so this is just stupid. But it was originally done with -- with a dog. Or even learn? Here's the water.". It was magic for me. Like for example, my plants were all in environment-controlled rooms, which is not a minor detail. It's time -- time for us to go and lie down on the soft forest floor. So we're really -- like this is -- we're really at the very beginning of this. You got the plant to associate the fan with food. And this is what makes it even more gruesome. JENNIFER FRAZER: Or it could be like, "Okay, I'm not doing so well, so I'm gonna hide this down here in my ceiling.". 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? No. JENNIFER FRAZER: 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. 526; 4 years ago; Smarty Plants by Radiolab. So you're like a metaphor cop with a melty heart. JENNIFER FRAZER: Finally, one time he did not bring the meat, but he rang the bell. ROBERT: It turns that carbon into sugar, which it uses to make its trunk and its branches, anything thick you see on a tree is just basically air made into stuff. Monica thought about that and designed a different experiment. ROBERT: After three days of this training regime, it is now time to test the plants with just the fan, no light. JENNIFER FRAZER: If you look at these particles under the microscope, you can see the little tunnels. I mean, I see the dirt. Ring, meat, eat. Ring, meat, eat. Like, the tree was, like, already doing that stuff by itself, but it's the fungus that's doing that stuff? 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. I don't know. And it was almost like, let's see how much I have to stretch it here before you forget. But white, translucent and hairy, sort of. ALVIN UBELL: They would have to have some ROBERT: Maybe there's some kind of signal? Smarty Plants. JENNIFER FRAZER: And the fungus actually builds a tunnel inside the rock. It was like, Oh, I might disturb my plants!" When you go into a forest, you see a tree, a tall tree. I remember going in at the uni on a Sunday afternoon. Wait a second. ROBERT: And when you look at the map, what you see are circles sprouting lines and then connecting to other circles also sprouting lines. But no, they're all linked to each other! 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LARRY UBELL: You got somewhere to go? 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. Why waste hot water? MONICA GAGLIANO: My reaction was, "Oh ****!" I was like, "Oh, my God! Or it could be like, "Okay, I'm not doing so well, so I'm gonna hide this down here in my ceiling.". ANNIE: Yeah. Or No. Birds. Unfortunately, right at that point Suzanne basically ran off to another meeting. ROBERT: And for the meat substitute, she gave each plant little bit of food. They're not experiencing extra changes, for example. So you're like a metaphor cop with a melty heart. -- they spring way up high in the air. St. Andrew's Magazine Dr. Aatish Bhatia Inspires Students & Faculty. ROBERT: Oh, so this is, like, crucial. SUZANNE SIMARD: We're sitting on the exposed root system, which is like -- it is like a mat. 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