Entertain Your Plants But take my word for it, music doesn’t
help Every year I receive several requests from students
interested in designing a science fair experiment to see if
music improves plant growth. Back in the 1980s and early ’90s, a
flurry of research projects studied the effects of sound on
plant growth. As long as I have been on the review boards for
plant science journals, I have never read or heard of a research
project that proved music made plants grow. Scientists have
never proven that classical music was better than rock and roll
or acid rock. There has never been any indication that soft
music is more beneficial than loud music. The only published
research on sound’s effect on plant growth features the effects
of sonic booms. Exposing tomato plants to sonic booms resulted
in stunted and distorted growth. Microscopic examination showed
disruption of cell components. If sonic booms can shatter glass,
it is no wonder they can disrupt plant cells. There was one
Kansas State University study, ho