Researchers found that music can help plants grow at a faster pace, and they found evidences that plants have genes that enable them to “hear”.
Researchers led by Mi-Jeong Jeong of the National Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology in Suwon, South Korea, monitored gene expression – the process by which a plant’s DNA code is translated into instructions for biological processes such as growth – in the crop.
The boffins noted that sounds at 125Hz and 250Hz made genes rbcS and Ald, which are known to respond to light, more active whereas sound waves at 50HZ made these genes less active, reports the Telegraph.
Since these genes respond to light, the team repeated to the experiments in the dark to check whether or not it was the sound, and not the light, that was making the genes more active.
