Plants can talk: a new era in plant acoustics

M Hussain, MK u Rahman, RC Mishra… - Trends in plant …, 2023 - cell.com
Plants release chemical signals to interact with their environment when exposed to stress.
Khait and colleagues unveiled that plants 'verbalize'stress by emitting airborne sounds …

Plants' cry'for help through acoustic signals

M Waqas, D Van Der Straeten, CM Geilfus - Trends in plant science, 2023 - cell.com
Plants perceive sounds, while responses to these sounds were already known. A
breakthrough is the discovery by Khait et al. that stressed plants emit various informative …

[HTML][HTML] Talk is cheap: rediscovering sounds made by plants

A Nardini, H Cochard, S Mayr - Trends in Plant Science, 2024 - cell.com
A recent study and related commentaries have raised new interest in the phenomenon of
ultrasonic sound production by plants exposed to stress, especially drought. While recent …

Plant sentience revisited: Sifting through the thicket of perspectives

P Calvo, M Segundo-Ortin - Animal Sentience, 2023 - wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org
In our target article (Segundo-Ortin & Calvo 2023), we proposed the intriguing possibility of
plant sentience, drawing parallels with non-human animal studies. This response aims to sift …

Developmental programming by prenatal sounds: insights into possible mechanisms

MM Mariette - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
In recent years, the impact of prenatal sound on development, notably for programming
individual phenotypes for postnatal conditions, has increasingly been revealed. However …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the Mechanobiology of Phytoacoustics Through Molecular Lens: Mechanisms and Future Perspectives

S Ali, A Tyagi, S Park, H Bae - Journal of Advanced Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Background How plants emit, perceive and respond to sound vibrations (SVs) is a long-
standing question in the field of plant sensory biology. In recent years, there has been …

Rising from the shadows: Selective foraging in model shoot parasitic plants

T Bawin, K Krause - Plant, Cell & Environment, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite being sessile, plants nonetheless forage for resources by modulating their growth.
Adaptative foraging in response to changes in resource availability and presence of …

The plant is neither dumb nor deaf; it talks and hears

AH El‐Sappah, K Yan, J Li - The Plant Journal, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Animals and insects communicate using vibrations that are frequently too low or too high for
human ears to detect. Plants and trees can communicate and sense sound. Khait et al. used …

[HTML][HTML] Sound waves alter the viability of tobacco cells via changes in cytosolic calcium, membrane integrity, and cell wall composition

M Sardari, F Ghanati, H Mobasheri, A Hajnorouzi - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The effect of sound waves (SWs) on plant cells can be considered as important as other
mechanical stimuli like touch, wind, rain, and gravity, causing certain responses associated …

Transcriptional reprogramming in sound‐treated Micro‐Tom plants inoculated with Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000

AA Calderón, L Almagro… - Physiologia …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Sound vibrations (SV) are known to influence molecular and physiological processes that
can improve crop performance and yield. In this study, the effects of three audible …