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It turns out that if you grow plants under music They will yield significantly larger harvests. This was shown by a recent study from the team at Tianjin Normal University, which has provided a new impetus for the development of so-called acoustic agriculture.
Experiments by scientists have shown that plants that listen to music grow 10 percent more leaves. At the same time, they absorb nutrients more efficiently. solar energy and produce more food, the publication reported. Daily Mail .
How it went experiment
In a television interview in 1986, King Charles (who was still a prince at the time) admitted that he sometimes talks to his plants. He claimed that they listen to him attentively and respond to his words. At the time, some people received this confession with skepticism, but today it doesn’t seem so strange anymore.
Plants really do respond to sounds. In particular, to music that activates photosynthesis and their growth.
During the research, the team periodically played the song The Purple Butterfly by the Swiss band Bandari to a common pond weed – duckweed. It is used as a valuable protein-vitamin feed for animals.
The plants listened to music for five hours a day at a volume of 60-70 decibels (the level of sound of a normal conversation). After a week, the researchers compared the duckweed that had been exposed to music with another batch of the same plant that had remained in silence during the experiment. It turned out that the music had a significant effect on the growth of the duckweed.
On the fifth day of the study, the growth rate of leaves in the music-loving plants was almost 10 percent higher than in the “quiet” group. Additionally, their protein levels increased by 60 percent. They also consumed sunlight more efficiently and produced more food, the team wrote in a report for the journal Plant Signaling And Behavior. According to the researchers, sound vibrations from the music altered the activity of 1,296 plant genes, including those involved in photosynthesis and hormonal control. “Our results showed that music improved the plants’ ability to utilize light energy,” the team stated.
According to scientists, these results were so striking that they could pave the way for a new method of acoustic agriculture. However, researchers are still unclear about why music has such an effect on plants. New studies will be needed for a better understanding of these processes.
