The Secret Sounds of Stressed Plants
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A new study has found that tomato and tobacco plants make distinctive sounds when cut or dehydrated, which can change depending on the plant emitting them and the type and severity of the threat that prompts them. The sounds happen at the approximate volume of human speech but outside the range of our hearing and could potentially be used by animals in their environment to change their behavior. The research opens the possibility that for organisms able to hear these pitches, a landscape of plants is also a soundscape of information, revealing essential information about both plants and the wider environment.
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