and informative
- Plants emit ultrasonic sounds, which are beyond the range of human hearing.
Plant sounds are informative: usually released when the plant is under stress, they contain information about its status. - The researchers recorded tomatoes, tobacco plants, and wheat, corn, cactus, and henbit.
- Researchers: “Apparently, a picturesque field of flowers can be quite noisy. Simply, we cannot hear the sounds!”
Researchers from Tel Aviv University have made a groundbreaking discovery: they have successfully recorded and analyzed sounds emitted by plants, which were previously imperceptible to human hearing.
The click-like sounds, similar to popcorn popping, were emitted by stressed plants at high frequencies beyond the range of human ears, but detectable by animals such as bats, mice, and insects.