Application of ultra-weak photon emission measurements in agriculture

Application of Spontaneous Photon Emission in the Growth Ages and Varieties Screening of Fresh Chinese Herbal Medicines

“…The origin of this light energy is related to the chemiexcitation of biological molecules during oxidative metabolic processes [ 3 , 4 ]. Therefore, the biophoton is closely related to various types of factors, such as exogenous toxins [ 5 – 7 ], pathogen attack [ 8 , 9 ], temperature [ 10 , 11 ], and acute stress [ 12 – 16 ], and it can reflect the physiological and pathological conditions of cells and tissues in a whole view. As a result, the measure of biophoton emission as a novel and noninvasive method has attracted considerable attention for monitoring the state of living organism and has been used in many fields, such as assessing cancer [ 17 – 20 ] and other health problems [ 21 – 26 ], detecting the quality of food [ 27 ], and the application in agriculture [ 7 , 13 ].…”

Spectral Distribution of Ultra-Weak Photon Emission as a Response to Wounding in Plants: An In Vivo Study

“…The ultra-weak photon emission is closely related to various types of factors, such as exposure to exogenous toxins [7,8], pathogen attack [9,10], temperature fluctuations [11][12][13], acute stress [14][15][16][17], drought/flood [18], mechanical injuries [19][20][21], and exogenous reactive oxygen species (ROS) induced oxidative stress [5,[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]. Thus, ultra-weak photon emission bears the potential to be employed in diagnostics of health-care, detecting the quality of food [31,32], and agriculture [8,17].…”

Biological autoluminescence for assessing oxidative processes in yeast cell cultures

“…Although the probable general biochemical and biophysical mechanisms of BAL are rather well established 9 , the origin and physiology of the processes leading to BAL are different for different organisms in different condition (e.g. [11][12][13][14] .…”