How Does Music Affect Plant Growth

Several studies show that music possesses properties that affect the growth rate of plants in different ways. These properties may be the wavelength of the music, its frequency or even its tempo. According to a study conducted by Margaret E. Collins and John E. K. Foreman, entitled The Effect of Sound on the growth rate of plants (2001), plants growth is directly affected by sounds of varying frequencies. They observed that when plants are exposed to pure tones, it affects the growth of the plant. This was due to the transverse wave which results to the increase of transpiration on the plant. Random noise was also highlighted as factor where the growth of the plant became less.
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A study by Gagliano et al. (2012) explained that plants vibrate at the rhythm of an evolutionary common sense. Plants use sound waves or vibrations for communication. Communication and sensory research about plants has an existing evidence but still not recognized and need for further investigations. As a preliminary investigation, both emission and detection of sound may be adaptive. It is still hard to believe that acoustic emission can be a factor in the growth or production of a plant but on the other hand we cannot set aside some studies and theories saying that there is really phenomenological importance of sound and vibrations in plant physiology. Moreover, sound can indeed affect the growth of a plant especially in modulating swarm behavior of growing roots. The researchers suggested that using music is a lot cheaper than the production of volatile allelochemical messengers commonly used by plants. Thus, the lack of studies in this field of area leaves a gap on the possibility of exploring other significant effects of sound on plants. (Gagliano, Mancuso, & Robert,
They used thirty (30) Roses and divided it into five groups depending on the genre of the music namely: Indian Classical music, Vedic chants, Western Classical music, Rock music, and the other group was seperated to kept silent in a closed room. The study concluded that playing Vedic Chants and Indian Classical Music in plants affects the growth of the plant whereas the rock music deteriorate the growth of the rose. The researchers also suggested that based on the findings, Vedic Chants and Indian Classical Music can be played in plants to improve growth of the plant resulting better crop