Turns out, tomato plants can get pretty noisy.
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“Even in a quiet field, there are actually sounds that we don’t hear, and those sounds carry information,” Lilach Hadany, senior author of the paper and an evolutionary biologist and theoretician at Tel Aviv University, says in a“Even in a quiet field, there are actually sounds that we don’t hear, and those sounds carry information.”
Distress sounds were more prolonged for plants deprived of water. They made increasingly more noise in the first few days without water, reaching a crescendo before quieting as they dried out. Because of that, it was possible to hear the difference between plants that were only a little dry versus those that were very dehydrated. Researchers were also able to train a machine learning algorithm to differentiate between dry, cut, and healthy plants.
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