Green symphonies: a call for studies on acoustic communication in plants

Gagliano, Monica

doi:10.1093/beheco/ars206

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“…Foliage planted along freeways to reduce noise pollution often grows differently than foliage planter in a quiet environment [3], [4]. It would be advantageous for plants to learn about the surrounding environment using sound, as acoustic signals propagate rapidly and detection of sound may have adaptive value in plants [5]. Plants are complex multicellular organisms considered as sensitive as humans for initial assaying of effects and testing new therapies [6]- [8].…”

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Effect of Different Types of Music on Rosa Chinensis Plants

Chivukula¹,

Ramaswamy²

2014

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Abstract-Music influences the growth of plants and can either promote or restrict the growth of plants (depending on the type of music being played). The present experiment is aimed to study the effect of music on 30 Rose (Rosa chinensis) plants taken in separate pots. The plants were divided into five groups and each group was subjected to one of the following types of music, Indian Classical music, Vedic chants, Western Classical music, and Rock music while one group was kept in silence as the control group. The elongation of shoot, internode elongation, the number of flowers and the diameter of the flowers were recorded and changed studied over a period of 60 days. Significant differences have been noted.It was seen that the plants exposed to Vedic chants showed the maximum elongation of shoot, maximum number of flowers and highest diameter of flowers. The internode elongation was highest in plants exposed to Indian classical music. This clearly shows that the subjecting the plants to Vedic chants or Indian classical music promotes the growth of plants as compared to the control group or subjecting them to Western classical or Rock music.Index Terms-Diameter of flowers, internode length, rosa chinensis, shoot length, music. I. INTRODUCTIONSound is known to affect the growth of plants [1]. Studies have also shown that sound vibration can be used to stimulate a seed or plant [2]. Previous studies indicate that musical sound has a significant effect on the number of seeds sprouted compared to noise and untreated control and sound vibrations directly affect living biologic systems [1]. Foliage planted along freeways to reduce noise pollution often grows differently than foliage planter in a quiet environment [3], [4]. It would be advantageous for plants to learn about the surrounding environment using sound, as acoustic signals propagate rapidly and detection of sound may have adaptive value in plants [5]. Plants are complex multicellular organisms considered as sensitive as humans for initial assaying of effects and testing new therapies [6]- [8].Several studies have been undertaken to study and understand the influence of sound and music on plants and plant growth. It has been reported that under optimal stimulation conditions (100dB and 800Hz) the sound field can enhance the growth of Chrysanthemum callus and moderate stress stimulation can enhance the assimilation of tissues or cells, improve their physiological activity and accelerate the growth of plants [9]. Other studies show that under suitable sound stimulation, the growth of  Manuscript received December 17, 2013; revised February 20, 2014. Vidya Chivukula is with St. Francis College, Osmania University. Hyderabad, India (e-mail: vidya.0610@gmail.com).Chrysanthemum roots could be accelerated and the sound stimulation could enhance the metabolism of roots and the growth [10]. Playing appropriate tunes have been found to stimulate the plant's synthesis of its appropriate protein [11]. The rate of water transpired out of leaves is also reportedly affecte...

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effect of Different Types of Music on Rosa Chinensis Plants

Chivukula¹,

Ramaswamy²

2014

IJESD

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“…The result revealed that in both the varieties altering magnetic field treated seeds showed increase root and sugar yield compared to control. Galland and Pazur (2005) reported that a magnetic field of magnitude one or two orders above geomagnetic field strength (35 to 70 ìT) could affect plant growth and metabolism. Samy (1998) had found out early flowering and yield increase of cabbage as a result of the treatment with a magnetic field at 8-hours exposition.…”

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“…1984). It would be advantageous for plants to learn about the surrounding environment using sound, as acoustic signals propagate rapidly and detection of sound may have adaptive value in plants (Gagliano, 2012). Plants are complex multicellular organisms considered as sensitive as humans for initial assaying of effects and testing new therapies (Benford, 2002).…”

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Effect of physical seed treatment on yield and quality of crops: A review

Govindaraj¹,

Masilamani²,

Albert³

et al. 2017

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Seed treatments are the biological, physical and chemical agents and techniques applied to seed to provide protection and improve the establishment of healthy crops. The benefits of seed treatments are increased germination, uniform seedling emergence, protect seeds or seedlings from early season diseases and insect pests improving crop emergence and its growth. Anthropogenic changes of the soil, water and atmosphere due to the use of different chemical additives for raising plants productivity led to searching alternative ways. Safe methods for increasing the yield includes the reasonable use of chemicals and substitution of some of them by appropriate physical treatments viz., magnetic field, gamma irradiation, electric field, laser irradiation, sound, healing energy, light and heat.Key words: Energy treatment, Germination, Seedling vigour, Seedling growth, Seed yield.Recently the use of physical methods for plant growth stimulation is getting more popular due to the less harmful influence on the environment. Physical factors can be used to get positive biological changes in crop plants without affecting the ecology. Growth, development and yield of dill seed is accelerated using physical treatment. All living processes are highly dependent on energy exchange between the cell and the environment. This is the core concept in "quantum agriculture" that has been intensively discussed in the last decades (www.btinternet.com). Energy treatment is an innovative area of research to improve the yield of crops. It initiates physiological and biochemical changes, which reflect the plant growth and development processes and ultimately improve the yield and quality of produce. Treatment led to change of seed vitality indices (germinating energy, germination, and uniformity of germination): In this paper, different types of energy treatments viz., magnetic field, gamma irradiation, electric field, laser irradiation, sound energy, healing energy, light and heat energy on germination, seed yield and quality of agriculture and horticulture crops. MECHANISM INVOLVED IN ENERGY TREATMENTPhysical factors import different kind of energy into the cells. It is a kind of energy treatment that stimulates the enzymes and other biochemical reactions that helps in early germination. Imported energy is absorbed by the electrons in different molecules. The absorbed energy may be transformed in another kind of energy (most probably chemical one) and then used for accelerating the seed metabolism. It helps to elucidate the mechanisms of energy exchange in molecules and thus stimulation of plant development. In the case of chemical amelioration the necessary substances are directly inserted into the cell. Whereas in the physical treatment, energy introduced in the cell creates conditions for molecular transformations. Magnetic field energy:Application of magnetic fields of extremely low frequencies positively affects seed germination, shoot development, plant length, fresh weight, fruit production and mean fruit weight (Cakmak et al.,...

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“…Also contributory is the work of Gagliano who asserts that plants not only collect environmental information to act on but can also be taught, are able to remember and can transmit acoustic messages regarding environmental conditions (Gagliano, 2013a(Gagliano, , 2013bGagliano et al, 2012aGagliano et al, , 2012bGagliano et al, , 2012cGagliano et al, 2014;Gagliano & Renton, 2013). For example, a recent piece of work examines whether Mimosa pudica can become habituated to repetitive stimuli (Gagliano et al, 2014).…”

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“The Edibility Approach”: Using Edibility to Explore Relationships, Plant Agency and the Porosity of Species’ Boundaries

Attala¹

2017

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In light of correspondence between interdisciplinary representations of plant abilities, this paper raises questions about plant/human-animal relationships and in so doing problematizes the category/species boundaries that both establish and characterize the differences between plant and animal. Using a more than human (Cf. Whatmore 2002; Head et al., 2012) multi-species (Kirksey and Helmreich 2010) framework that rejects reductionist methods in favour of a relational, materialities approach; an alternative method to consider plant/human-animal relationships that focuses on edibility and the consequences of ingestion is proposed. Termed the Edibility Approach, this method foregrounds the ways that plants influence human bodies as a result of their edibility and considers the corollary processes that occur during ingestion and after digestion. Interrogation of the social effects of eating plants and the part plants play in inciting behaviours as if from "the inside" of bodies adds a nuanced direction to the study of plant/human-animal relationships. This phyto-centric framing offers a new botanical ontology and conceptual tool. By focusing on the dependencies between species, it proposes that there is a multi-vocal embodied dialogue occurring between species through digestion.

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Green symphonies: a call for studies on acoustic communication in plants

Cited by 100 publications

References 96 publications

Effect of Different Types of Music on Rosa Chinensis Plants

Effect of Different Types of Music on Rosa Chinensis Plants

Effect of physical seed treatment on yield and quality of crops: A review

“The Edibility Approach”: Using Edibility to Explore Relationships, Plant Agency and the Porosity of Species’ Boundaries

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