Stimulation of soy seeds using environmentally friendly magnetic and electric fields

TL;DR

This study investigates how environmentally friendly magnetic and electric fields influence soy seed growth and photosynthesis, using machine learning to analyze physical effects on different cultivars and identifying positive impacts on germination and emergence.

Contribution

It introduces a novel application of machine learning to distinguish physical field effects on soy plant growth parameters and demonstrates observable impacts of electromagnetic stimulation on soy cultivars.

Findings

Magnetic fields positively affected germination in Merlin cultivar.

Physical fields influenced emergence and plant number, especially in Mavka.

Machine learning successfully distinguished effects of physical factors on photosynthetic parameters.

Abstract

The study analyzes the impact of constant and alternating magnetic fields and alternating electric fields on various growth parameters of soy plants: the germination energy and capacity, plants emergence and number, the Yield(II) of the fresh mass of seedlings, protein content, and photosynthetic parameters. Four cultivars were used: MAVKA, MERLIN, VIOLETTA, and ANUSZKA. Moreover, the advanced Machine Learning processing pipeline was proposed to distinguish the impact of physical factors on photosynthetic parameters. It is possible to distinguish exposition on different physical factors for the first three cultivars; therefore, it indicates that the EM factors have some observable effect on soy plants. Moreover, some influence of physical factors on growth parameters was observed. The use of ELM (Electromagnetic) fields had a positive impact on the germination rate in Merlin plants. The highest values were recorded for the constant magnetic field (CMF) - Merlin, and the lowest for the alternating electric field (AEF) - Violetta. An increase in terms of emergence and number of plants after seed stimulation was observed for the Mavka cultivar, except for the AEF treatment (number of plants after 30 days) (...)