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. 2023 Sep;28(9):987-990.
doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2023.06.014. Epub 2023 Jul 1.

Plants can talk: a new era in plant acoustics

Muzammil Hussain  1 , Muhammad Khashi U Rahman  2 , Ratnesh Chandra Mishra  3 , Dominique Van Der Straeten  4
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Plants can talk: a new era in plant acoustics

Muzammil Hussain et al. Trends Plant Sci. 2023 Sep.

Abstract

Plants release chemical signals to interact with their environment when exposed to stress. Khait and colleagues unveiled that plants 'verbalize' stress by emitting airborne sounds. These can train machine learning models to identify plant stressors. This unlocks a new path in plant-environment interactions research with multiple possibilities for future applications.

Keywords: airborne sounds; machine learning; plant bioacoustics; plant stress; sound transmission.

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Declaration of interests The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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