RELATION BETWEEN DELAYED LUMINESCENCE AND FUNCTIONAL-STATE IN SOYA SEEDS

The possibility of using the parameters connected to delayed luminesce nce to detect thermal stress conditions in soya seeds is discussed her e and the results of the measurement of photoinduced emission conducte d on soya seeds characterized by a different vegetative vigour are pre sented. A phenomenological relationship between the total re-emission and the growth velocity was found. The distributions of the decay time s relative to the different conditions of stress on the seeds have giv en indications towards the existence of different dynamics. On the bas is of the results it seems that a correlation exists between the funct ional state of the seeds and delayed luminescence.