We linked to this conversation with the author of The Light Eaters, and now see we can share this book excerpt published in The Atlantic:
On a freezing day in December 2021, I arrived in Madison, Wisconsin, to visit Simon Gilroy's lab. In one room of the lab sat a flat of young tobacco and Arabidopsis plants, each imbued with fluorescent proteins derived from jellyfish.
The excerpt came to our attention reading this book review by The New Yorker's Rachel Riederer which, like the book excerpt, makes you wonder what became of David Rhoades (we searched and could find no trail to follow, so it remains a mystery to us). It reveals to book to be more of an anthropological study of science than just a primer on plant communication:
A New Book About Plant Intelligence Highlights the Messiness of Scientific Change
In "The Light Eaters," by Zoë Schlanger, the field of botany itself functions as a character—one in the process of undergoing a potentially radical transformation.
During the nineteen-seventies and eighties, a researcher at the University of Washington started noticing something strange in the college's experimental forest.
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