Gallep Cristiano M, Barlow Peter W, Burgos Rosilene C R, van Wijk Eduard P A
School of Technology, University of Campinas, Limeira, Brazil.
School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Protoplasma. 2017 Jan;254(1):315-325. doi: 10.1007/s00709-016-0947-1. Epub 2016 Jan 28.
In order to corroborate the hypothesis that variations in the rate of spontaneous ultra-weak photon emission (UPE) from germinating seedlings are related to local variations of the lunisolar tidal force, a series of simultaneous tests was performed using the time courses of UPE collected from three plant species-corn, wheat and sunflower-and also from wheat samples whose grains were transported between continents, from Brazil to The Netherlands and vice versa. All tests which were run in parallel showed coincident inflections within the UPE time courses not only between seedlings of the same species but also between the different species. In most cases, the UPE inflections were synchronised with the turning points in the local gravimetric tidal variation. Statistical tests using the local Pearson correlation verified these coincidences in the two time series. The results therefore support the hypothesis of a relationship between UPE emissions and, in the oscillations, the local gravimetric tide. This applies to both the emissions from seedlings of different species and to the seedlings raised from transported grain samples of the same species.
为了证实发芽幼苗自发超微弱光子发射（UPE）速率的变化与日月引潮力的局部变化有关这一假设，进行了一系列同步测试，使用从三种植物——玉米、小麦和向日葵——以及从在各大洲之间运输的小麦样本（从巴西运往荷兰，反之亦然）收集的UPE时间进程。所有并行进行的测试表明，UPE时间进程内不仅同一物种的幼苗之间，而且不同物种之间都有一致的拐点。在大多数情况下，UPE拐点与当地重力潮汐变化的转折点同步。使用局部皮尔逊相关性的统计测试验证了这两个时间序列中的这些巧合。因此，结果支持了UPE发射与振荡中的局部重力潮汐之间存在关系的假设。这适用于不同物种幼苗的发射以及同一物种运输谷物样本培育的幼苗。
