Experimental study of the effects of biogenic electromagnetic and acoustic radiation on seed germination: interpretation of the mitogenetic effect through statistical physics and information theory

Abstract

Treatment of seeds (pumpkin, carrot, and cabbage) with electromagnetic and acoustic radiations from germinated seeds were implemented using two types of developed setups (batch and continuous-flow). The optimal parameters ensuring maximal stimulation of germination capacity and germination energy of seeds were determined in the experiments with the batch-type setup (treated seeds at the beginning of the swelling phase, the irradiating seeds in the sprout development phase, exposure duration >1 hour at distances from 5 mm to 10 mm).
The results obtained with the batch-type setup showed significant stimulation of germination capacity and germination energy of seeds, whereas experiments with the continuous-flow setup did not provide sufficient reproducibility of the effect. Possible reasons for the difference in these results and ways to improve the effect’s reproducibility for practical applications are discussed.
Mitogenetic radiation can be considered as the result of transition of biological systems from one metastable state to another and described by the method of statistical mechanics: the Liouville equation. The Liouville and Noether theorems are proved for a complex (entangled) quantum system. These theorems state that the depth of deformation of the structure and the change in symmetry of an entangled quantum system during the transition of the system from one metastable state to another is characterized by the parameter Ic – the amount of mutual information. This parameter characterizes the depth of entanglement of a quantum system. Hypothesis on the possible role of entangled photons in mitogenetic effect is discussed.

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Yuriy Gorovoy
Faculty of Digital Systems, Yaroslavl State Technical University, Yaroslavl 150023, Russia
Russia

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