title: Towards understanding plant bioacoustics.
abstract: Little is known about plant bioacoustics. Here, we present a rationale as to why the perception of sound and vibrations is likely to have also evolved in plants. We then explain how current evidence contributes to the view that plants may indeed benefit from mechanosensory mechanisms thus far unsuspected.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Evolutionary Biology, School of Animal Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia. monica.gagliano@uwa.edu.au
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gagliano
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mancuso
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Robert
mesh_terms: D000162:Acoustics; D005075:Biological Evolution; D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D040542:Mechanotransduction, Cellular; D010944:Plants / Q000378:metabolism*; D013016:Sound