Listen carefully, and a plant may tell you it’s thirsty. Dry tomato and tobacco plants emit distinct ultrasonic clicks, scientists report March 30 in Cell. The noises sound something like a kid ...

The UK’s LettUs Grow has developed a unique method of growing plants with sound and water aimed at boosting sustainable production in horticulture. The Bristol-based company supplies vertical farm ...

If a drought-parched plant lets out a scream, but it’s at a frequency too high to hear, does it count as a cry of distress? According to a study posted on the preprint server bioRxiv last week, the ...