Ooh, interesting. That’s a different angle from what we were working on but a similar idea of being able to understand what stresses plants are under.

Here’s an article talking about the project I contributed to: https://www.engineering.com/story/xzezv

Well just in case this ends up being a solution to some mystery I’ve not come across, here’s a genuine (albeit seemingly pointless) finding from a research project I did a while back:

When saltwater is poured into the soil around the roots of a tomato plant, the plant’s internal electrochemical response oscillates with a 0.1hz frequency.

I’m not sure what mystery that will solve but now nobody can accuse me of not reporting/recording it!

Especially so for anything discovered more than a couple hundred years ago when most people couldn’t write, let alone have their findings instantly available to the world via the internet