Scientists made a sensational statement about plants

Plants are able to hear water and insects.

It is believed that flowers grow better to classical music, and one of the first albums “Metallica” will become your favorite orchids torture. Scientists are usually skeptical of such assumptions.

But recent experiments have shown that flowers actually can perceive some sounds.

Most importantly, these sounds were critically important. So the bassoon from the trombone, they are unlikely to feature.

Recently, Monica Gagliano, an evolutionary biologist from the University of Western Australia, and her colleagues conducted an interesting experiment. They planted peas in pots in the shape of an inverted Y. One “leg” of pots placed either in water or on a plastic pipe, through which water flowed. The second “leg” was just dry soil.

The experiment showed that the roots of peas growing in the water, regardless of whether access to the liquid or only to the pipe through which it flowed. The only source of information about that in the other side the water flows, for peas were just her sound, scientists say.

Thus, if we give peas a choice between moist soil and plastic water pipes, he will always choose the former. Monica Gagliano believes that plants use sound waves to detect water at a distance, but when her close, focused on soil moisture.

But the water is not the only thing that makes flora “prick up your ears”. A study conducted in 2014, showed that the canadian Arabidopsis can discern buzzing sounds tracks and wind vibration. When plants “hear” insects, it allocated more chemical toxins. The study authors found that the leaves are extremely sensitive to the slightest vibrations. It also points to the fact that a bee buzzing at a certain frequency that stimulates the release of pollen from flowers.

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