" We hypothesize that beneath the soil surface the attenuation of light (virtual darkness: low background noise) enables seeds to exploit UPE for transducing key environmental variables in the soil (temperature, humidity and oxygen) to inform them of seasonal and local temperature patterns. Overall, seed coats were found to have potential as effective transducers of key fluctuating environmental variables in the soil." {Credits 1} {Credits 1} 🎪 Footitt, S., Palleschi, S., Fazio, E., Palomba, R., Finch‐Savage, W. E., & Silvestroni, L. (2016). Ultraweak Photon Emission from the Seed Coat in Response to Temperature and Humidity—A Potential Mechanism for Environmental Signal Transduction in the Soil Seed Bank. Photochemistry and photobiology, 92(5), 678-687. © 2016 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. |
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