Temperature dependence of the ultraweak spontaneous photon emission from soya seeds

Abstract

The ultraweak radiation emitted from soya seeds during germination has been measured for different values of the temperature (20–35°C). The parameters relative to the photon emission time-counting series have been compared with the ones relative to germination and imbibition; it has been found that the activation energy relative to the process of the photon emission from live seeds is equal to that of the germination process (51 KJ/mole), demonstrating that the two processes are correlated. A function of the experimental parameters which eliminates the explicit dependence of the above biological processes on temperature has been proposed.