Experiment C: The germination of seeds.

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Experiment C: The germination of seeds
at rest with respect to the Earth.

Orderly EFAs essential in germination.

.1 The presence of orderly EFAs in seeds would be one of the constraints for their germination.

.2 Orderly EFAs degrade to normal ones as a function of temperature and time.

.3 Seeds at rest with respect to the Earth are able to restore their endowment of orderly EFAs only when the phase velocity of the Moon increases.

.4 By the way, without the Moon, that could not be possible.

During the last days of the “hard seed periods”.

.5 Above all when the temperature is high, during the last days of the “hard seed periods” (b-c; d-a), germination would take place either thanks to some orderly EFAs left over, or, maybe, because the seeds have been moved, and fresh orderly EFAs have taken shape by chance.

.6 Some seeds - e.g. wheat - show the ability to germinate during the whole cycle, with no problem; most of the times, in them, there would be enough orderly EFAs left over to germinate.

.7 On the contrary, other seeds - e.g. linseeds - once properly conditionned and kept at rest with respect to the Earth, are able to germinate only during the “tender seed periods”, and during a few days after their termination.

Germination tests with linseeds.

.8 In order to check these assertions, one has to proceed to one series of germination tests, using linseeds, during the last three/four days of a long enough “hard seed period” (here d-a).

First condition.

.9 First of all: the seeds used for the test must be conditionned at temperature between 34 and 36 °C for some days at the beginning of the chosen “hard seed period”.

.10 By doing this, most of the orderly EFAs will degrade to normal EFAs. So that there is not enough orderly EFAs left for the seeds to germinate.

Second condition.

.11 Moreover the seeds are to be kept absolutely at rest with regard to the Earth during a few days before the tests and for the whole duration of them (indeed, a constraint not very easy to comply with, in particular when one gives them water).

Outcome.

.12 Abiding by this procedure, all the seeds of the same series will germinate at the same time, only after the beginning of the following tender seed period, it does not matter on which day one gives them water.

.13 However, it is possible that one or two seeds in a test begin to germinate before the onset of the following tender seed period, while the other seeds of the same test keep waiting.

.14 In the seeds which have started the germination process early, it is possible that either a sufficient quantity of orderly EFAs was left over, or, more likely, that the second condition was not complied with.

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	Annex EC

EC	Experiment C: The germination of seeds at rest with respect to the Earth.



	Orderly EFAs essential in germination.
.1	The presence of orderly EFAs in seeds would be one of the constraints for their germination.
.2	Orderly EFAs degrade to normal ones as a function of temperature and time.
.3	Seeds at rest with respect to the Earth are able to restore their endowment of orderly EFAs only when the phase velocity of the Moon increases.
.4	By the way, without the Moon, that could not be possible.
	During the last days of the “hard seed periods”.
.5	Above all when the temperature is high, during the last days of the “hard seed periods” (b-c; d-a), germination would take place either thanks to some orderly EFAs left over, or, maybe, because the seeds have been moved, and fresh orderly EFAs have taken shape by chance.
.6	Some seeds - e.g. wheat - show the ability to germinate during the whole cycle, with no problem; most of the times, in them, there would be enough orderly EFAs left over to germinate.
.7	On the contrary, other seeds - e.g. linseeds - once properly conditionned and kept at rest with respect to the Earth, are able to germinate only during the “tender seed periods”, and during a few days after their termination.

	Germination tests with linseeds.
.8	In order to check these assertions, one has to proceed to one series of germination tests, using linseeds, during the last three/four days of a long enough “hard seed period” (here d-a).



	First condition.
.9	First of all: the seeds used for the test must be conditionned at temperature between 34 and 36 °C for some days at the beginning of the chosen “hard seed period”.
.10	By doing this, most of the orderly EFAs will degrade to normal EFAs. So that there is not enough orderly EFAs left for the seeds to germinate.
	Second condition.
.11	Moreover the seeds are to be kept absolutely at rest with regard to the Earth during a few days before the tests and for the whole duration of them (indeed, a constraint not very easy to comply with, in particular when one gives them water).
	Outcome.
.12	Abiding by this procedure, all the seeds of the same series will germinate at the same time, only after the beginning of the following tender seed period, it does not matter on which day one gives them water.
.13	However, it is possible that one or two seeds in a test begin to germinate before the onset of the following tender seed period, while the other seeds of the same test keep waiting.
.14	In the seeds which have started the germination process early, it is possible that either a sufficient quantity of orderly EFAs was left over, or, more likely, that the second condition was not complied with.

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