Is plant acoustic communication fact or fiction?

• DOI: 10.1111/nph.19648
• Publication Date: 2024-03-01T05:33:31Z
• Authors: Jin‐Soo Son; Seonghan Jang; Nicolas Mathevon; Choong‐Min Ryu
• Keywords: 0301 basic medicine; 03 medical and health sciences

Summary In recent years, the idea has flourished that plants emit and perceive sound could even be capable of exchanging information through acoustic channel. While research into plant bioacoustics is still in its infancy, with potentially fascinating discoveries awaiting ahead, here we show current knowledge not conclusive. do sounds under biotic abiotic stresses such as drought, these are high‐pitched, low intensity, propagate only to a short distance. Most studies suggesting sensitivity airborne actually concern perception substrate vibrations from soil or part. short, while low‐frequency, high‐intensity emitted by loudspeaker close seem have tangible effects on various processes growth – finding possible applications agriculture it unlikely can they produce, at least over long distances. So far, there no evidence communicating each other via