Flowers respond to pollinator sound within minutes by increasing nectar sugar concentration

Veits, Marine; Khait, Itzhak; Obolski, Uri; Zinger, Eyal; Boonman, Arjan; Goldshtein, Aya; Saban, Kfir; Seltzer, Rya; Ben-Dor, Udi; Estlein, Paz; Kabat, Areej; Peretz, Dor; Ratzersdorfer, Ittai; Krylov, Slava; Chamovitz, Daniel; Sapir, Yuval; Yovel, Yossi

doi:10.1111/ele.13331

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“…For instance, the plant Solanum lycopersicum releases its pollen only in the presence of a particular vibration of the air caused by pollinating insects (Torres‐Ruiz & Jones, 2012). Also, Oenothera drummondii flowers produce a more sugary nectar after exposure to playback of the natural sound of bee wingbeats (Veits et al, 2019). These authors observed that petals vibrate when they receive a specific sound, and hypothesized that flowers can be considered as sense organs.…”

Section: Flowers Nectar and Fertilizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Plant behaviour: an evolutionary response to the environment?

2020

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Plants are not just passive living beings that exist in nature. They are complex and highly adaptable species that react sensitively to environmental forces/stimuli with movement, morphological changes and through the communication via volatile molecules. In a way, plants mimic some traits of animal and human behaviour; they compete for limited resources by gaining more area for more sunlight and spread their roots underground. Furthermore, in order to survive and thrive, they evolve and ‘learn’ to control various environmental stress factors in order to increase the yield of flowering, fertilization and germination processes. The concept of associating complex behaviour, such as intelligence, with plants is still a highly debatable topic among researchers worldwide. Recent studies have shown that plants are able to discriminate between positive and negative experiences and ‘learn’ from them. Some botanists have interpreted these behavioural data as a form of primitive cognitive processes. Others have evaluated these responses as biological automatisms of plants determined by adaptation to the environment and absence of intelligence. This review aims to explore adaptive behavioural aspects of various plant species distributed in different ecosystems by emphasizing their biological complexity and survival instincts.

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Section: Flowers Nectar and Fertilizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Plant behaviour: an evolutionary response to the environment?

2020

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“…Many animals, including herbivores and their predators, respond to sound [22][23][24]. Recently, plants were also demonstrated to respond to sounds [13,[25][26][27][28], e.g., by changing gene expression of specific genes [26,27], or by producing sweeter nectar in response to pollinator 20 sound [28]. If plants are capable of emitting informative airborne sounds, these sounds have a potential for triggering a rapid effect on nearby organisms, including both animals and plants.…”

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Plants emit informative airborne sounds under stress

Khait

Lewin‐Epstein

Sharon

et al. 2018

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the plant's condition -dry, cut, or intact -based on its emitted sounds. Our results suggest that animals, and possibly even other plants, could use sounds emitted by plants to gain information about the plant's condition. More investigation on plant bioacoustics in general and on sound emission in plants in particular may open new avenues for understanding plants, and their interactions with the environment.15 20

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“…If we accept that there is a physical layer of communication in the soil, how can we study it? This requires a methodological retooling that will not be straightforward, since capturing, recording, and replaying relevant sounds in an acoustically insulated environment at the scale required is a challenge [3,16]. One of the potential challenges is sound attenuation in porous media, which has been studied in the context of localizing buried objects [17].…”

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Sounds of Soil: A New World of Interactions under Our Feet?

Rillig

Bonneval²,

Lehmann

2019

Soil Systems

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Soils are biodiversity-dense and constantly carry chemical flows of information, with our mental image of soil being dark and quiet. But what if soil biota tap sound, or more generally, vibrations as a source of information? Vibrations are produced by soil biota, and there is accumulating evidence that such vibrations, including sound, may also be perceived. We here argue for potential advantages of sound/vibration detection, which likely revolve around detection of potential danger, e.g., predators. Substantial methodological retooling will be necessary to capture this form of information, since sound-related equipment is not standard in soils labs, and in fact this topic is very much at the fringes of the classical soil research at present. Sound, if firmly established as a mode of information exchange in soil, could be useful in an 'acoustics-based' precision agriculture as a means of assessing aspects of soil biodiversity, and the topic of sound pollution could move into focus for soil biota and processes.

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Flowers respond to pollinator sound within minutes by increasing nectar sugar concentration

Cited by 92 publications

References 79 publications

Plant behaviour: an evolutionary response to the environment?

Plant behaviour: an evolutionary response to the environment?

Plants emit informative airborne sounds under stress

Sounds of Soil: A New World of Interactions under Our Feet?

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