EXPLORING MUSIC’S INFLUENCE ON PLANT GROWTH USING SYNCHRO SQUEEZED FRACTIONAL WAVELET TRANSFORM

Abstract

Music’s impact on plant development has been a topic of growing interest in phytobiology, with studies suggesting that sound waves stimulate physiological responses in plants. Music, particularly at specific frequencies, is hypothesized to have an impact on cell growth, nutrient absorption, and overall vitality, potentially enhancing agricultural productivity. Understanding this relationship could lead to innovative and environmentally friendly techniques for optimizing plant health and improving crop yields. In this paper, Exploring the Influence of Music on Plant Growth using Synchro squeezed Fractional Wavelet Transform (EMIPG-SFWT) was proposed. Initially, audio such as western music, Indian classical music, Vedic chanting, and the physical and chemical parameters of the plant are given as input. The collected audios are fed into the preprocessing segment, where noise reduction and normalization are done using the Adaptive Two-Stage Unscented Kalman Filter (ATSUKF). The pre-processed audio signals are then given to extract the spectral features such as Spectrogram, Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients, Spectral Centroid and Spectral Bandwidth through the Synchro squeezed Fractional Wavelet Transform (SFWT) in the feature extraction phase. Finally, the extracted characteristics are given for the Statistical Test to find the correlation between the extracted characteristics and the physical and chemical parameters of the plant. The correlation analysis shows that Vedic chanting effectively influences the physical and chemical factors of the plant. The proposed EMI-PG-SFWT method was implemented in MATLAB. The proposed EMI-PG-SFWT approach revealed that Vedic chanting significantly improved plant growth, with the highest straw yield (3705 kg/ha) and grain yield (2220.18 kg/ha), outperforming classical and Western music. It also enhanced seed weight(33.325 g/1000 seeds) and tiller density (344/m²) compared to the control. These findings confirm the Vedic chanting as the most effective in promoting plant growth, offering a sustainable approach to improve agricultural productivity.