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- Title
Is plant acoustic communication fact or fiction?
- Authors
Son, Jin‐Soo; Jang, Seonghan; Mathevon, Nicolas; Ryu, Choong‐Min
- Abstract
Summary: In recent years, the idea has flourished that plants emit and perceive sound and could even be capable of exchanging information through the acoustic channel. While research into plant bioacoustics is still in its infancy, with potentially fascinating discoveries awaiting ahead, here we show that the current knowledge is not conclusive. While plants do emit sounds under biotic and abiotic stresses such as drought, these sounds are high‐pitched, of low intensity, and propagate only to a short distance. Most studies suggesting plant sensitivity to airborne sound actually concern the perception of substrate vibrations from the soil or plant part. In short, while low‐frequency, high‐intensity sounds emitted by a loudspeaker close to the plant seem to have tangible effects on various plant processes such as growth – a finding with possible applications in agriculture – it is unlikely that plants can perceive the sounds they produce, at least over long distances. So far, there is no evidence of plants communicating with each other via the acoustic channel.
- Subjects
SOIL vibration; ABIOTIC stress; BIOACOUSTICS; PLANT-soil relationships; PLANT growth
- Publication
New Phytologist, 2024, Vol 242, Issue 5, p1876
- ISSN
0028-646X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/nph.19648