For me the question is if plants can actually hear these distress sounds, otherwise it’s not really for communication.
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They probably do. But even if not, it can be used for communication with insects and other animals.
I remember this mythbusters episode. They basically detected that plants “might “ scream or signal to other plants. They got some weird outliers too.
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