Endogenous Chemiluminescence from Germinating Arabidopsis Thaliana Seeds.

ABSTRACT: It is well known that all biological systems which undergo oxidative metabolism or oxidative stress generate a small amount of light. Since the origin of excited states producing this light is generally accepted to come from chemical reactions, the term endogenous biological chemiluminescence is appropriate. Apart from biomedicine, this phenomenon has potential applications also in plant biology and agriculture like monitoring the germination rate of seeds. While chemiluminescence capability to monitor germination has been measured on multiple agriculturally relevant plants, the standard model plant Arabidopsis thaliana has not been analyzed for this process so far. To fill in this gap, we demonstrate here on A. thaliana that the intensity of endogenous chemiluminescence increases during t

SUBMITTER: Saeidfirozeh H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6212569 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature