TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENCE OF THE ULTRAWEAK SPONTANEOUS PHOTON-EMISSION FROM SOYA SEEDS

The ultraweak radiation emitted from soya seeds during germination has been measured for different values of the temperature (20-35-degrees- C). The parameters relative to the photon emission time-counting serie s have been compared with the ones relative to germination and imbibit ion; it has been found that the activation energy relative to the proc ess of the photon emission from live seeds is equal to that of the ger mination process (51 KJ/mole), demonstrating that the two processes ar e correlated. A function of the experimental parameters which eliminat es the explicit dependence of the above biological processes on temper ature has been proposed.