Wi-Fry: Detrimental Impacts of Wi-Fi Router Radiation on Crop Seed Viability and Vigor

Presenter(s)

Jann Angelli Bacolod

Abstract or Description

As use of Wi-Fi routers has proliferated worldwide, biological impacts of exposure to router-emitted electromagnetic radiation remain uncertain.

Mung bean (Vigna radiata) seeds, serving as a model crop plant, were grown under regulated conditions for 28 days. Test groups were positioned 5 inches from an active 5GHz household Wi-Fi router. While control seeds were isolated in a Faraday cage without radiation exposure.

Wi-Fi radiation proved significantly detrimental to the bean’s development – reducing germination by 58% (30% Wi-Fi group vs. 72% controls), diminishing seedling height by 37%, and cutting survival rates by 17%. Quantitative impacts outpaced hypotheses, ranging 15-30% beyond projections (p>0.05). Stunting and phenotype alterations occurred, documented photographically. Such impairments likely stem from disrupted cellular repair, gene expression inhibition, and metabolism interferences essential for growth.