J C Bose

• A group of Israeli researchers have been able to pick up distress noises made by plants.
• The plants made very distinct, high-pitched sounds in the ultrasonic range when faced with some kind of stress. This was the first time that plants had been caught making any kind of noise.
• This development is seen as a logical extension of the work of Indian scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose, who demonstrated that plants could experience sensations and feel pleasure and pain

About Jagadish Chandra Bose

• He was born on 30th November 1858 to Bama Sundari Bose and Bhagawan Chandra, Bengal.
• He was a physicist-turned-biologist who had shown, more than a century ago, that plants experienced sensations and were able to feel pleasure and pain just like animals.
• He invented the crescograph, a device for measuring the growth of plants.
• He is also credited as one of the first contributors to solid state physics.
• He had anticipated the p-type and n-type semiconductors.
• Bose is widely believed to be the first one to generate electromagnetic signals in the microwave range.
• He was the first one to come up with radio receivers, which enabled wireless telegraphy.
• His books include Response in the Living and Non-Living (1902) and The Nervous Mechanism of Plants (1926).