Singing or playing music to your plants might seem silly, but a recent study suggests it can actually have a positive effect on your greenery.
The researchers played Bandari’s “The Purple Butterfly” near duckweed plants for five hours a day for a week. This “soft music”, in the words of the scientists, was played at 60-70 decibels. The average protein content of duckweed also increased considerably with music. The average protein content of the “musical” plants was 8.89 mg/g FW, significantly higher than that of the batch grown without sound .
“Therefore, music stimulation promoted photosynthesis by increasing the expression of photosynthesis-related genes with music treatment,” they explained in their paper, published in the journal “Plant Signaling & Behavior”.