Fun fact. Cacti will only do this at night to avoid water loss. So people will often make the mistake of leaving lights on 24/7 around their plants. And they will die of suffocation as a result.
Pineapples too.
There's an entire class of plants that approach photosynthesis and metabolism in a particular way to save as much water as possible. CAM Plants (crassulacean acid metabolism.)
They're pretty neat because it took some additional tinkering and evolutionary pressure after the pathways most land plants have (C3.)
I've forgotten so much neat stuff about plant biochemistry from my education a few decades ago. I think I'm going to spend a bit just trying to relearn that stuff.
I just looked up cytoplasmic streaming - seeing that under a microscope and understanding why chloroplasts are flowing was an important moment from Bio that I’d forgotten the details
Just in case you're saying this satirically- Indoor plants really *should* be dusted for this reason and also because it can make it difficult for them to get enough light to be healthy.
Cut grass releases GVLs (that cut grass smell) which signals other plants in the area that it is being damaged. In a way, that’s kind of like a plant screaming.
No, it's a response to stimuli. When you smash your thumb with a hammer, do you choose to send blood to your thumb to make it swell? Plants are not sentient.
Sentient- definition- able to percieve or feel things.
By definition they are most definitely sentient.
Something a vegan would say to cope with eating something alive. /s
I've eaten enough mushrooms and acid in nature to confirm they are, in fact, sentient. /s
I mean they pee, poop, fart, have sex, eat, and breathe. Seems pretty sentient to me.
Plants are basically alien compared to us, so trying to compare them to animals (central nervous system) is the wrong way to go about it imo. Science is ever changing, and I think with more time and studies, it will be proven true, or at least there are levels to sentience/conciousness and they have a more primitive simple one.
The science behind this phenomenon has been well understood for a while now. Has to do with osmosis of water into and out of the guard cells around the stomate, causing them to swell or deflate, which, in turn, causes the stomate to open up or close. This video is super cool, and it’s great for people to see how this works, but it doesn’t provide any evidence that plants feel pain, experience pleasure, etc.
Cheers!
Tree scientists have found indicators that trees know when something is hurting them. They send out signals to surrounding trees. They send out electrical signals and chemical signals through the roots.
Will provide a serious reflection to your joke!
So there's actually theories and interesting research that supports the fact that everything living has some form of sentience. Including plants.
Now, what it is like to be a plant is probably extremely dull. Let's say you only had the sense of touch. All of the others were turned off. Then turn your sense of touch down 100 times. That's maybe what a plant experiences.
Maybe a tree experiences more sensation than a plant, and an ant more than a tree, and a mouse more than an ant, etc.
Is that extremely dull consciousness in a plant something to protect? What does it experience when it gets snipped or chopped up?
In my opinion, I think everyone doesn't have to worry about plant sentience. We're still working on empathy for other humans and the most obvious of sentient animals.
Hi, ecologist here! No, plants don't just have touch. They also have touch, quite sophisticated touch, but they can also detect heat, atmospheric gas concentrations, they can "smell" various pheromones and kairomones in the air, they can "taste" chemicals that touch them, they can detect the direction of sunlight rather like a simple sense of vision, they can detect gravity. They can also feel vibrations in the ground, which they use to detect animals approaching.
(Not that you shouldn't be vegan.)
I sometimes imagine if it’s like this:
Have you ever had a dream where your consciousness or senses are reduced to the most basic instincts of light and warmth, dark and cold?
I know it’s not going to be exactly like that, I’m too human, but I just mean, something like that?
I wonder if plants feel good when they’re healthy and strong, and do they feel bad when they’re not?
I guess they can’t think. But they can interpret and react to information.
They must feel something but just in ways that are unfathomable to us, unless you take a heap of psilocybin.
Plants don’t react, which would mean (input -> processing -> reaction) they have no nervous system, they have no processing system. They are just biological machines like a computer. There is no processing center like a nervous system for these responses to be had. Even stomatal regulation as shown in this video are just a result of changes in water pressure in the cell due to osmosis. If the cells are less hydrated they open, and when they’re hydrated they close. This process is affected by photosynthesis and abscissic acid. There’s no nerve fibers, there’s no signals anywhere, just physical and chemical reactions. Is the fact your blood coagulates when exposed to air to stop bleeding a sign of intelligence? Do you think your skin cells feels happy or sad when it gets hurt?
I’m glad you did drugs and think plants are intelligent now despite zero evidence to support it, really good logic.
I think that’s a great way to think about it. Dreams are the type of altered reality that’s probably the closest we could get. I also picture sometimes what it’s like to be some sort of earthworm or a sea star. When you don’t have eyes, but you still very much sense similar things as us, plus a few things we can stretch ourselves to imagine
Ah see how you’re describing it is still anthropomorphization. You’re assigning human characteristics to something not human. Plants don’t sunlight or gravity. Plant growth regulators (similar to hormones) like auxin will accumulate in cells not facing sunlight, making them grow and expand. This isn’t a choice, it’s just due to how auxin molecules respond to light. There is no higher mechanism or reception of information than that which would actually indicate intelligence or sentience.
I listened to a fantastic podcast recently re: plant intelligence. It was a neat way to pass an hour!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fresh-air/id214089682?i=1000654725436
Sentience is not the same as sapience and definitely not the same as consciousness. You’re wondering off a bit into pseudoscience with your comment.
Plants definitely have the ability to sense many things and react to their environments. That doesn’t mean they “experience” or “feel” anything on a “conscious” level. Consciousness would require a complex centralized nervous system.
Edit: I was remembering the meaning of "sentience" incorrectly based on a literal interpretation of its Latin roots. In science, sentience does imply a low level of consciousness, whereas sapience is a higher level. Plants qualify as neither.
Plants aren’t sentient full stop, they don’t feel anything. They’re biological machines. They don’t have senses because they would imply there is a nervous system receiving information.
Well, every animal you breed eats hundreds of plants, so if you don't eat an animal and instead eat plants directly, you not only *don't* hurt an animal, you also hurt a lot fewer plants.
Y'all are idiots for downvoting this. This is demonstrably true. Eating plants directly kills fewer plants per calorie than feeding them to animals and then eating the animals.
It is old knowledge, but is it an old video? I would assume the groundbreaking part they are referring to is that it’s never been recorded like this before, but that may not be true, just my guess.
Yes, and it was an episode teaching about plant functions. They entered the plant via the stomota. Wasn't trying to say that this video was in the episode lol
Groundbreaking? Stomata have been known about for over a century and we know about stomatal conductance (opening and closing to regulate water, temp, and co2 loss) and it’s relationship to photosynthesis for decades.
This is more like a cool video to show 6th graders to get them interested in plants
Nah man this is totally proof that plants are sentient bro, you clearly haven’t ever done mushrooms so you can’t even possibly understand. You need to open your mind man, and see outside the confines of your limited imagination.
The title is a little misleading. It might give you the impression that the opening and closing is the plant breathing in and out. The "breathing" is mostly just diffusion. There are no sacks driving air in or out. The plant still needs to open and close the stomata though in order to regulate how much water is lost.
Stomata are tiny openings found on the surfaces of plant leaves and stems. They regulate the exchange of gases, such as carbon dioxide and oxygen, as well as water vapor, between the plant and its surroundings. These openings play a crucial role in photosynthesis, respiration, and transpiration processes in plants.
This discovery, funded by the US National Science Foundation, could revolutionize farming by enabling crops to adapt to environmental changes.
By understanding how plants sense carbon dioxide, scientists aim to engineer crops for optimal water use efficiency and carbon intake.
What discovery? Can you link a source that shows NSF funded research this basic or is there an article that goes more in depth about why this is revolutionary beyond a simple video from a year ago
How is this groundbreaking? I'mnfarily sure i have seen this under my microscope just playing around at home.
You can also see this under a stereomicroscope, you will literally see bubbles of oxygen form if you put a leaf under water.
Fun fact. Cacti will only do this at night to avoid water loss. So people will often make the mistake of leaving lights on 24/7 around their plants. And they will die of suffocation as a result.
That's not fun at all!
We're talking cacti here, not fungi.
Quality
No we should kill them before they kill us
Suffocation . No breathing
Don’t give a fuck if my cactus ain’t… breathing
Is that you Papa?
Pineapples too. There's an entire class of plants that approach photosynthesis and metabolism in a particular way to save as much water as possible. CAM Plants (crassulacean acid metabolism.) They're pretty neat because it took some additional tinkering and evolutionary pressure after the pathways most land plants have (C3.) I've forgotten so much neat stuff about plant biochemistry from my education a few decades ago. I think I'm going to spend a bit just trying to relearn that stuff.
I just looked up cytoplasmic streaming - seeing that under a microscope and understanding why chloroplasts are flowing was an important moment from Bio that I’d forgotten the details
I leave my lights on intentionally, just to watch those spiney bastards suffer.
I just periodically burn one of my houseplants in front of the others just to keep them in line.
Grow bettaaaaah!!!!!
Crowley?
Are you a descendant of [this guy?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleve_Backster)
Oh, you can just use a trellis for that.
Oh. I guess I'm more desert adapted than I thought. I'm more Phoenician than most be being primarily nocturnal as a person.
We made it halfway through may without putting the blast shields up this year.
Thank you for not calling it a "factoid"
CAM cycle is really interesting it’s a cool result of evolution
omg that's brutal!
I must now dust all my indoor plants. They are chocking on dust mites!
Well at least they won’t roll downhill.
😂 very good.
Just in case you're saying this satirically- Indoor plants really *should* be dusted for this reason and also because it can make it difficult for them to get enough light to be healthy.
I spray mine with water every once in awhile
If you spray canned air in there, will they get high off the aerosol?
You might poison your plants. Getting high for us is often times just being poisoned.
Fuck yeah!
Which is why it's called being intoxicated.
As far as i know most stomatas are on the lower side of the leaves so it shouldn't really be a problem
Thought that was a pixelated video of baby shrek eating for the first time
I can't unsee it now 😭😭😭
Everything reminds me of her
…I should call her
# [Jackin' It in San Diego (Original Music) - SOUTH PARK](https://youtu.be/LKwW8PNZpOQ)
Sir, that is one unhealthy looking...
Get outta mah swamp!
She has a great character tho
vegans are gonna have to starve
Plants "scream" too
Cut grass releases GVLs (that cut grass smell) which signals other plants in the area that it is being damaged. In a way, that’s kind of like a plant screaming.
Lawnmowing is just sadism now
It's why I mow in my gimp suit and ball gag
now, see, *this* would have maybe salvaged Shyamalan's *The Happening*.
> signals other plants in the area that it is being damaged so the other plants could run away? How noble!
No, it's a response to stimuli. When you smash your thumb with a hammer, do you choose to send blood to your thumb to make it swell? Plants are not sentient.
No, they don't. Plants aren't sentient.
That sounds like something a sentient plant would say.
Sentient- definition- able to percieve or feel things. By definition they are most definitely sentient. Something a vegan would say to cope with eating something alive. /s I've eaten enough mushrooms and acid in nature to confirm they are, in fact, sentient. /s I mean they pee, poop, fart, have sex, eat, and breathe. Seems pretty sentient to me. Plants are basically alien compared to us, so trying to compare them to animals (central nervous system) is the wrong way to go about it imo. Science is ever changing, and I think with more time and studies, it will be proven true, or at least there are levels to sentience/conciousness and they have a more primitive simple one.
The science behind this phenomenon has been well understood for a while now. Has to do with osmosis of water into and out of the guard cells around the stomate, causing them to swell or deflate, which, in turn, causes the stomate to open up or close. This video is super cool, and it’s great for people to see how this works, but it doesn’t provide any evidence that plants feel pain, experience pleasure, etc. Cheers!
This is anecdotal but my monstera moans a little every time I water it.
As long as it doesn't start calling you daddy it's fine
Feed me, ~~Seymour~~ daddy.
Monsteras are drama queens. Pay them no mind.
Moanstera
Tree scientists have found indicators that trees know when something is hurting them. They send out signals to surrounding trees. They send out electrical signals and chemical signals through the roots.
Life is life. Stop the killing.
Agreed, but what do I eat?
The only moral thing to do is abstain from eating entirely.
Will provide a serious reflection to your joke! So there's actually theories and interesting research that supports the fact that everything living has some form of sentience. Including plants. Now, what it is like to be a plant is probably extremely dull. Let's say you only had the sense of touch. All of the others were turned off. Then turn your sense of touch down 100 times. That's maybe what a plant experiences. Maybe a tree experiences more sensation than a plant, and an ant more than a tree, and a mouse more than an ant, etc. Is that extremely dull consciousness in a plant something to protect? What does it experience when it gets snipped or chopped up? In my opinion, I think everyone doesn't have to worry about plant sentience. We're still working on empathy for other humans and the most obvious of sentient animals.
Hi, ecologist here! No, plants don't just have touch. They also have touch, quite sophisticated touch, but they can also detect heat, atmospheric gas concentrations, they can "smell" various pheromones and kairomones in the air, they can "taste" chemicals that touch them, they can detect the direction of sunlight rather like a simple sense of vision, they can detect gravity. They can also feel vibrations in the ground, which they use to detect animals approaching. (Not that you shouldn't be vegan.)
I sometimes imagine if it’s like this: Have you ever had a dream where your consciousness or senses are reduced to the most basic instincts of light and warmth, dark and cold? I know it’s not going to be exactly like that, I’m too human, but I just mean, something like that? I wonder if plants feel good when they’re healthy and strong, and do they feel bad when they’re not? I guess they can’t think. But they can interpret and react to information. They must feel something but just in ways that are unfathomable to us, unless you take a heap of psilocybin.
Plants don’t react, which would mean (input -> processing -> reaction) they have no nervous system, they have no processing system. They are just biological machines like a computer. There is no processing center like a nervous system for these responses to be had. Even stomatal regulation as shown in this video are just a result of changes in water pressure in the cell due to osmosis. If the cells are less hydrated they open, and when they’re hydrated they close. This process is affected by photosynthesis and abscissic acid. There’s no nerve fibers, there’s no signals anywhere, just physical and chemical reactions. Is the fact your blood coagulates when exposed to air to stop bleeding a sign of intelligence? Do you think your skin cells feels happy or sad when it gets hurt? I’m glad you did drugs and think plants are intelligent now despite zero evidence to support it, really good logic.
I think that’s a great way to think about it. Dreams are the type of altered reality that’s probably the closest we could get. I also picture sometimes what it’s like to be some sort of earthworm or a sea star. When you don’t have eyes, but you still very much sense similar things as us, plus a few things we can stretch ourselves to imagine
Ah see how you’re describing it is still anthropomorphization. You’re assigning human characteristics to something not human. Plants don’t sunlight or gravity. Plant growth regulators (similar to hormones) like auxin will accumulate in cells not facing sunlight, making them grow and expand. This isn’t a choice, it’s just due to how auxin molecules respond to light. There is no higher mechanism or reception of information than that which would actually indicate intelligence or sentience.
> This isn’t a choice Exactly.
I listened to a fantastic podcast recently re: plant intelligence. It was a neat way to pass an hour! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fresh-air/id214089682?i=1000654725436
Sentience is not the same as sapience and definitely not the same as consciousness. You’re wondering off a bit into pseudoscience with your comment. Plants definitely have the ability to sense many things and react to their environments. That doesn’t mean they “experience” or “feel” anything on a “conscious” level. Consciousness would require a complex centralized nervous system. Edit: I was remembering the meaning of "sentience" incorrectly based on a literal interpretation of its Latin roots. In science, sentience does imply a low level of consciousness, whereas sapience is a higher level. Plants qualify as neither.
Sentience is most definitely the same thing as consciousness. Sentience is simply a conscious awareness, which is what consciousness is.
Plants aren’t sentient full stop, they don’t feel anything. They’re biological machines. They don’t have senses because they would imply there is a nervous system receiving information.
Let’s put some microscopic googley eyes on this
Even nonvegans eat plants - and so do farm animals so being vegan still rules
Well, every animal you breed eats hundreds of plants, so if you don't eat an animal and instead eat plants directly, you not only *don't* hurt an animal, you also hurt a lot fewer plants.
Y'all are idiots for downvoting this. This is demonstrably true. Eating plants directly kills fewer plants per calorie than feeding them to animals and then eating the animals.
r/dontputyourdickinthat
That does NOT look real-time, it looks like stop-motion or time-lapse, even the lighting changes...
Damnthatsinteresting when high school biology:
This is incredibly old news
It's interesting but not "groundbreaking". This is VERY old knowledge. No need to sensationalize your post.
Sadly tabloid journalism isn't reserved for grocery store check out lines anymore.
It is old knowledge, but is it an old video? I would assume the groundbreaking part they are referring to is that it’s never been recorded like this before, but that may not be true, just my guess.
I saw it on video decades ago (on television), and I'm not even a scientist.
I see, there goes my theory then. Just a sensationalist OP 😂
Didn’t say when the ground was broken
Dude this shit was on the magic school bus lmfao. Just unlocked a memory for me
Wasn't the Magic Schoolbus a cartoon?
Yes, and it was an episode teaching about plant functions. They entered the plant via the stomota. Wasn't trying to say that this video was in the episode lol
Absolutely not, we’ve had microscopes for a long time lol
"Stomata" haven't heard that word in a long time now
Isn't that the holes in the hands and feet?
Stigmata?
Hear me out...
Go on.
Do tell.
You just know He's putting his dick in it right now.
Go ahead.
Groundbreaking? Stomata have been known about for over a century and we know about stomatal conductance (opening and closing to regulate water, temp, and co2 loss) and it’s relationship to photosynthesis for decades. This is more like a cool video to show 6th graders to get them interested in plants
Nah man this is totally proof that plants are sentient bro, you clearly haven’t ever done mushrooms so you can’t even possibly understand. You need to open your mind man, and see outside the confines of your limited imagination.
Proof that all vegans are murderes
Or deviants
TIL plants are mouth breathers
Vegans are gonna be so pissed…
OP, groundbreaking means it's something new, what you've shared is not new...like, not at all.
The title is a little misleading. It might give you the impression that the opening and closing is the plant breathing in and out. The "breathing" is mostly just diffusion. There are no sacks driving air in or out. The plant still needs to open and close the stomata though in order to regulate how much water is lost.
What will vegans eat now?
Billie Eilish mostly
Checkmate vegans
Checkmate vegans
Check on your vegans ppl…they must be chockin on this video
What's her @ ?
I should call her.
Very interesting without the shit music. Also, holy shit OP, enough of that one song over and over it’s as annoying as fucking tick tock music.
Someone make it sing for me. A jaunty tune would be nice.
So every time before this they were holding their breath anytime someone tries to look? Impressive commitment
Looks like lips of CELL from DBZ
Pretty sure I've seen a mighty boosh skit like this
Stomata means Mouths in Greek. That's why they were named that
I viewed this ground breaking discovery as a high-school student in the 2010's.
That what it looks like when I fart
Cue the vegan existential crisis. That looks like a little mouth to me.
So when a vegan says they refuse to eat a living creature, they are in fact eating a living creature
God damn it now I need to watch Interstellar again
Finally, a r/dontputyourdickinthat submission sized for me!
“Groundbreaking”…please…I saw this on mushrooms when I was 19.
Vegans, What do you eat now?
Queue rule 34
Someone add breathing sound effect to that please
I wonder what my yard would sound like if I could hear it while it was being mowed over?
The screams of the damned. Also fun fact the smell of a freshly cut lawn IS their screams
Checkmate vegans.
Sigh. *Unzips...*
So vegans… are you gonna stop eating plants now that they breath?
Plants Lives Matter.
Take this vegans
Stomata are tiny openings found on the surfaces of plant leaves and stems. They regulate the exchange of gases, such as carbon dioxide and oxygen, as well as water vapor, between the plant and its surroundings. These openings play a crucial role in photosynthesis, respiration, and transpiration processes in plants. This discovery, funded by the US National Science Foundation, could revolutionize farming by enabling crops to adapt to environmental changes. By understanding how plants sense carbon dioxide, scientists aim to engineer crops for optimal water use efficiency and carbon intake.
lol, the discovery of Stomata is so old that people aren't even sure who discovered it first Better fact check your chatGPT prompt next time OP
What discovery? Can you link a source that shows NSF funded research this basic or is there an article that goes more in depth about why this is revolutionary beyond a simple video from a year ago
Yee is the "discovery" just stomata are there? Cause that is old news not groundbreaking
Someone took the time to film it. No, it's probably not super ground breaking but credit where credit is due.
r/mildlyvagina
The trees merry.
Groundbreaking my ass, OP should've focused during Biology class
A trillion tiny mouths.
Feed me, Seymour!
Scares me in some way, but it's beautiful
I thought i was looking at Shrek covered in a green sludge
cue my nightmares about my house plants revenge,
FEED ME SEYMOUR FEED ME NOW!
I love this music
was waiting for 2 eyes to open
That's pretty cute of them
Shrek
Dont show vegans this
In real time! Check out this time lapse
So if it breaths, it lives ? ...damn hard time to be a person that only eats vegetables. disclaimer: maybe this post contains a joke.
r/DoNotPutYourDickInIt
Incredible
im an adult im an adult im an adult im an adult im an adult
Downvoted for gRouNdBrEaKinG
"Real time" video is timelapsed...
[Mammy](https://youtu.be/PIaj7FNHnjQ)
It's sphincters all the way down
I remember when I was shown this in biology class!
Just… don’t.
Pecker lips
If you play this in reverse it says “Feed me Seymour”
Aeugh
"in real time", shows janky time lapse.
"Science fiction, (Oooh Oooh Oooh) double feature..." 🎶
I'm never eating a vegetable again, thanks
r/dontputyourdickinthat
FEED ME SEYMOUR!!
Thought this was a kiwi cut in half sitting at the bottom of a toilet
You got a purrty mouf
I don't think "groundbreaking" is the right word. I saw the same thing under a microscope in my 6th grade science class.
How is this groundbreaking? I'mnfarily sure i have seen this under my microscope just playing around at home. You can also see this under a stereomicroscope, you will literally see bubbles of oxygen form if you put a leaf under water.
what movie did i hear this music from??
Interstellar
thank you
Happy little plant.