Tenderness and viability in sunflower seeds.

Chapter 2, page 1.

Seeds: their behaviour.

2.1 2.1 Tenderness and viability in sunflower seeds.
2.2 The viability in grains varies both senses.
2.3 The global cycle of the grains (experiment C).
2.4 How the grains recover their viability (experiment E).
2.5 Interpretation of the results of the experiment E”.
2.6 Seeds set in motion with respect to the Earth
(experiment A).

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Tenderness in sunflower seeds.

.1 The two researches of this site started from a simple observation: that the degree of tenderness in sunflowerseeds varies.

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This has been known for years, but it was always taken as a curiosity. Instead, this fact has been the key to have access to an ensemble of phenomena, apparently unconnected, which would rely - all of them - on the functioning, as open structures, of some molecules, such as those of water and those of EFAs (Essential Fatty Acids).

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This is of primary importance, both from a theoretical point of view, and for the applications envisaged, already possible in agriculture.

.4 The research on the EFAs in seeds has been done above all on sunflower seeds, chosen because in them the dissipative events under study - those which increase the degree of their viability - are more evident. And, moreover, on the seeds such as linseeds, maize, wheat, according to their peculiarities, with respect either to the observation, or to the experiment to be carried out.

.5 Generally, what is said of these seeds can be applied also to other seeds, mutatis mutandis.

Tenderness and viability in seeds.

.6 The tenderness in seeds, in particular in sunflowerseeds, would have a direct relation with their viability.

The degree of tenderness in seeds.

.7 The viability in seeds is here meant as the degree, for a given seed, to use the available ressources, and to carry out, easily and properly, all the processes necessary to germinate, thanks to the fluidity among contiguous EFAs.

.8 The degree of tenderness in seeds would be related to the degree of collective “order” (negentropy), assumed by groups of molecules of EFAs, which happen to have the same low energy configuration; the collective order acquired by EFAs molecules, inside the same cluster, is function of the uniformity and coherence, existing among themselves.

.9 Indeed, the two main variables which contribute to boost the degree of viability in a seed are: (1) the uniformity of configuration among many ensembles of contiguous EFAs molecules, and (2) the low energy of the said configurations.

Consequences.

.10 The larger the groups of orderly EFAs molecules (the dotation), i.e. the groups which have all assumed low energy configurations, the better vital functions in seeds would be carried out, above all during the crucial phase that precedes their germination.

.11 With far reaching consequences in terms of utilisation of the resources, during the life of the plant, of its structure, of its capacity to cope with adverse conditions, and eventually in terms of its productivity.

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	Chapter 2, page 1.

	Seeds: their behaviour.
2.1	2.1 Tenderness and viability in sunflower seeds. 2.2 The viability in grains varies both senses. 2.3 The global cycle of the grains (experiment C). 2.4 How the grains recover their viability (experiment E). 2.5 Interpretation of the results of the experiment E”. 2.6 Seeds set in motion with respect to the Earth (experiment A).
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	Tenderness in sunflower seeds.
.1	The two researches of this site started from a simple observation: that the degree of tenderness in sunflowerseeds varies.
.2	This has been known for years, but it was always taken as a curiosity. Instead, this fact has been the key to have access to an ensemble of phenomena, apparently unconnected, which would rely - all of them - on the functioning, as open structures, of some molecules, such as those of water and those of EFAs (Essential Fatty Acids).
.3	This is of primary importance, both from a theoretical point of view, and for the applications envisaged, already possible in agriculture.

.4	The research on the EFAs in seeds has been done above all on sunflower seeds, chosen because in them the dissipative events under study - those which increase the degree of their viability - are more evident. And, moreover, on the seeds such as linseeds, maize, wheat, according to their peculiarities, with respect either to the observation, or to the experiment to be carried out.
.5	Generally, what is said of these seeds can be applied also to other seeds, mutatis mutandis.
	Tenderness and viability in seeds.
.6	The tenderness in seeds, in particular in sunflowerseeds, would have a direct relation with their viability.
	The degree of tenderness in seeds.
.7	The viability in seeds is here meant as the degree, for a given seed, to use the available ressources, and to carry out, easily and properly, all the processes necessary to germinate, thanks to the fluidity among contiguous EFAs.
.8	The degree of tenderness in seeds would be related to the degree of collective “order” (negentropy), assumed by groups of molecules of EFAs, which happen to have the same low energy configuration; the collective order acquired by EFAs molecules, inside the same cluster, is function of the uniformity and coherence, existing among themselves.
.9	Indeed, the two main variables which contribute to boost the degree of viability in a seed are: (1) the uniformity of configuration among many ensembles of contiguous EFAs molecules, and (2) the low energy of the said configurations.
	Consequences.
.10	The larger the groups of orderly EFAs molecules (the dotation), i.e. the groups which have all assumed low energy configurations, the better vital functions in seeds would be carried out, above all during the crucial phase that precedes their germination.
.11	With far reaching consequences in terms of utilisation of the resources, during the life of the plant, of its structure, of its capacity to cope with adverse conditions, and eventually in terms of its productivity.

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