Bacterial biophotons as non-local information carriers: Species-specific spectral characteristics of a stress response.

ABSTRACT: Studies by Alexander Gurwitsch in the 1920' s with onion root cells revealed the phenomenon of mitogenetic radiation. Subsequent works by Popp, Van Wijk, Quickenden, Tillbury, and Trushin have demonstrated a link between Gurwitsch's mitogenetic radiation and the biophoton, emissions of light correlated with biological processes. The present study seeks to expand upon these and other works to explore whether biophoton emissions of bacterial cultures is used as an information carrier of environmental stress. Bacterial cultures (Escherichia coli and Serratia marcescens) were incubated for 24 hr in 5 ml of nutrient broth to stationary phase and cell densities of ~10⁷ cells/mL. Cultures of E. coli were placed upon a photomultiplier tube housed within a dark box. A second bacterial cu

SUBMITTER: Tessaro LWE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6562132 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature