{"id":5757,"date":"2017-04-19T12:49:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T12:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/?p=5757"},"modified":"2026-06-29T14:35:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:35:35","slug":"on-the-in-tuned-peas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/on-the-in-tuned-peas\/","title":{"rendered":"On the \u2018in-tuned\u2019 peas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B2kDa6GnLjc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Growing roots locate a water source by sensing the vibrations generated by water moving inside pipes, even in the absence of substrate moisture. When both moisture and acoustic cues were available, roots preferentially used moisture in the soil over acoustic vibrations, suggesting that acoustic gradients enable roots to broadly detect a water source at a distance, while moisture gradients help them to reach their target more accurately.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007%2Fs00442-017-3862-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007%2Fs00442-017-3862-z<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.water-wheel.net\/27\/71\/51\/1525171271.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Additional video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing roots locate a water source by sensing the vibrations generated by water moving inside pipes, even in the absence of substrate moisture. When both moisture and acoustic cues were available, roots preferentially used moisture in the soil over acoustic vibrations, suggesting that acoustic gradients enable roots to broadly detect a water source at a distance, while moisture gradients help them to reach their target more accurately. http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007%2Fs00442-017-3862-z Additional video<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-resources","category-videos","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5757"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6009,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5757\/revisions\/6009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/plant-behavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}