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Makes sense, it's hard to see see an evolutionary purpose to this.

• mdp2021 4y ago
  > This might be very helpful for agriculture. For instance, tomato plants emit sounds of stress before they started looking dehydrated We can now process it, so, as proactive evolution, it worked. Before that, > We know that certain animals are capable of hearing these sounds ... We still need to understand who is using this sound, what role does it play in the world, but it suggests many many possibilities // It's also possible plants themselves could react to these sounds, Hadany said. The same team found in a paper published in 2019 that plants can respond to the sounds of pollinators like bees. "They respond within three minutes by making sweeter nectar"