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Women's voices 'make plants grow faster' finds Royal Horticultural Society (Richard Alleyne, 22 Jun 2009, Daily Telegraph)

Women gardeners' voices speed up growth of tomato plants much more than men's, it found.

In an experiment run over a month, they found that tomato plants grew up to two inches taller if they were serenaded by the dulcet tones of a female rather than a male.