Daft_ish@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-28 months agoHow likely do you think it is that there might have been a person in a the last 2000 years who solved one of life's great mysteries but never reported/recorded it?message-squaremessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up1185arrow-down19
arrow-up1176arrow-down1message-squareHow likely do you think it is that there might have been a person in a the last 2000 years who solved one of life's great mysteries but never reported/recorded it?Daft_ish@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-28 months agomessage-square52fedilink
minus-squareGargablegar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·8 months agoSo this is related to hydration in the plants. I read this paper about tomato plants being stressed and emitting ultrasonic chirps https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2023/april/plants-emit-ultrasonic-popping-sounds-when-stressed.html
minus-squarethe_stat_man@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·8 months agoOoh, interesting. That’s a different angle from what we were working on but a similar idea of being able to understand what stresses plants are under. Here’s an article talking about the project I contributed to: https://www.engineering.com/story/xzezv
minus-squareMrsDoyle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·8 months agoSo glad I can’t hear my poor potplants.
So this is related to hydration in the plants. I read this paper about tomato plants being stressed and emitting ultrasonic chirps
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2023/april/plants-emit-ultrasonic-popping-sounds-when-stressed.html
Ooh, interesting. That’s a different angle from what we were working on but a similar idea of being able to understand what stresses plants are under.
Here’s an article talking about the project I contributed to: https://www.engineering.com/story/xzezv
So glad I can’t hear my poor potplants.
They said “Whaaat?”