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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (197861)	4/26/2023 12:01:53 AM
From: sense	Respond to of 218253

I've done experimental work on chemical communication between plants... enough to be able to use it in fostering improvement in crop quality by "talking" to the plants I grew with controlled chemical signalling. And then I extended that work into deliberately mixing plant communities to have the plants inter-specific communication accomplish that communication goal for me... by selecting well matched neighbors. In one result, that approach eliminated disease pressure... had no problems for four years in my plot, although it was located in the middle of others with near continual pressure... It made mine both disease free and entirely "chemical free"... while improving crop quality... a lot. And, did that while zeroing out spending on chemicals and labor... making a much better crop for a lot less money... Lots of others addressing various aspects of that now... Have been aware for a long time of "plants listen to music" type stuff... Yours the first I'd heard of plants potentially using sound to communicate... they say the sound emitted contains "information"... which I assume they use to mean the relation they define between sound emission and "plant stress". Given prior work on how sound impacts plant growth... reasonable to presume that it might have that sort of impact they project... but stop just short of claiming. But, even while they're a bit short of identifying "plant vocabularies"... or proving communication by sound emission... it would be worth revisiting prior work on plants and music... to see if "music" designed to communicate with plants in something closer to "plant language" might work better than using music designed for us... ? I have no problem with their re-formatting ultrasonic or infrasonic waves to make them audible... But... that is not this... first link, below... a cool enough effort as an "art project"... that is marred by misrepresenting those detectable wave forms generated... after processing them through a generative music algorithm... used as a "digital audio kaleidoscope"... generating music that is made by the people assigning the plants "voices" they don't have... and claiming "plants make music"... But, this is cool... The "science" link you provided notes that the plants are quiet when they're happy... and only make sounds with stress being applied to them... while the pseudo-science art project projects things they've imagined into the plants... claiming the plants are "singing" in beautiful voices... when they're not... In the reality of signalling between plants using sound... it might be more the case that your lawn screams when you mow it... rather than it singing beautiful songs when you water it... Also note it as a theme in concept that was developed creatively in the movie Avatar ? Probably not the element in it that most people took as the "take away" message... assuming that bit was entirely fictional ?