Author(s)

Victoria L. Hossack^*, Michael A. Persinger, Blake T. Dotta^*

Behavioural Neuroscience and Biology Programs, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.

A multitude of experiments have applied magnetic fields to plants or seeds and found a variety of different and sometimes contradicting results. A magnetic field generating device called the Chrysalis resonator has been shown to influence the brain activity of human participants, the photon emissions from bacteria, mammalian cell cultures and water. In this experiment sunflower seeds (Helianthus annus) were allowed to begin germination and then exposed to either the field generated by the Chrysalis resonator or a sham condition. Their growth and photon emissions were taken over the next 5 days. It was found that the seeds showed less germination 48 hours after exposure and significantly higher photon emissions when 3 seeds were measured together in a dish, but not if 2 seeds or 1 seed were measured. There were no significant differences in the photon measurements from the water the seeds were germinating in. These results may indicate that the seeds became more sensitive to the presence of neighbouring seeds. The photon emissions results were also significantly impacted by external weather conditions.

Seed Germination, Photon, Communication, Magnetic Field

Hossack, V. , Persinger, M. and Dotta, B. (2019) Seed Germination and Their Photon Emission Profile Following Exposure to a Rotating Magnetic Field. Open Journal of Biophysics, 9, 254-266. doi: 10.4236/ojbiphy.2019.94018.