MIT researchers discovered that the sound of falling droplets can shake rice seeds out of a dormant state, stimulating them to germinate more quickly than seeds that are not exposed to the same sound vibrations.
  • perestroika@slrpnk.netMEnglish
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    19 days ago

    Interesting.

    I’m tempted to propose an alternative explanation: vibrating water might enter the tissues of the rice seeds faster. I tried to see if they had a control group with other sounds, but it seems they did not. And indeed, this kind of a control group would be hard to create, as one would have to know pretty damn “well what kind of sound will cause statoliths in cells to move?”