Some plants emit sounds when they are under attack by herbivores Raymond Keller/Shutterstock
The idea that plants communicate by sound has caught on among some scientists and the media – but there is no solid evidence that it is true, according to a review of published studies.
“Plants are not capable of exchanging information through the acoustic channel,” says at Jean Monnet University in Saint-Etienne, France.
Since as far back as 1970s, scientists have known that plants make sounds under various forms of stress, such as a lack…
