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Critical Reviews™ in Biomedical Engineering

ISSN for PRINT: 0278-940X

Institutional price:	$1677.00
Issues per year:	6

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2001, Volume29

288 pages

Issue price - $266.00

Effect of Low-intensity Infrared and Millimeter Radiation on Higher Plants' Biopotentials

E. A. Mironova
Physical Faculty of M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Yu. M. Romanovskii
Physical Faculty of M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

ABSTRACT

This article studies the effect of local low-intensity electromagnetic radiation on the bioelectric responses of plants. In our investigation, we used thirty-three wavelengths in the visible and infrared spectrum regions as well as three wavelengths in the millimeter spectrum region. As a result, we obtained the bioelectric responses of plants to electromagnetic radiation not only in the absorption region of cellular pigments (such as chlorophyll, flavin, and phytochrome) but also in the absorption region of water molecules.