Biophoton Detection and Its Environment Response in Plants

Living systems always radiate photons called bioluminescence. Very weak bioluminescence is frequently called the biophoton in plants which is now our main subjects. Biophotons are induced by chemical reactions inside of plants due to daily physiological activities. Plants cannot move into comfortable places by themselves while their environment is unpleasant for them ,and instead they must be adapted by their phsiological change. Therefore they are very sensitive to the environment change and biophoton from them may play an role as an indicator of environment stresses acting to plants. We here study the radiation mechanism for biophotons from plants especially at the stage from gernimation to a seedling growth. We have found the strong radiation of biophotons at attacked by bacterium, suffered by strong salt stress as well as water stress. The systematic relationship between externally applied stresses and intensity dynamics of biophtons has been obtained. Further research will be required to make clear them.



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