Influence of Electromagnetic Fields on Seed Productivity.

This review is devoted to a problem of the impact of low-frequency electromagnetic fields on the productivity of plant seeds. The work discusses the patterns of manifestation of a magnetobiological effect when irradiating seeds, considers the basic laws underlying magnetobiological effects, and discusses the cause-and-effect relationships between the mechanisms and parameters of the action of electromagnetic fields on plants on one hand and the composition of mineral substances and the cellular structure of seeds on the other hand. Based on an analysis of the results of laboratory tests carried out in the fields and in scientific laboratories for the presowing treatment of seeds of various grain and vegetable crops, it is shown that a strict correspondence of the mechanism and kinetics of energy impact with the energy susceptibility of a living plant organism at macromolecular and molecular levels is among the main factors determining the growth of seed germination and the subsequent development into an adult organism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]