Month: September 2022

"LOW INPUT SYSTEMS, such as organic farming, which substantially reduce the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, energy and mechanic stress, aim at mitigating these negative impacts in order to improve sustainable production." http://www.nature.com/ismej/journal/v9/n5/full/ismej2014210a.html View in LinkedIn

"GLOBAL DATABASES increasingly facilitate developing models that illustrate the multi-scaled interactions between plants, microbes, humans, and changing environments. Such robust, multi-scaled models will enable users to thoroughly assess benefits and risks associated with new crop technologies. These models should help prevent the kinds of unintended consequences of the GR." (Green Revolution). https://lnkd.in/eQvzCYA View in LinkedIn

CULTURAL CHANGE. So ends our journey into the world of living soils. The hope is that current research, concurrent with that of the human microbiome, provides evidence and impetus to deviate from the self-destructive path of intensive chemical farming. As data on equivalent yields are paired with evidence of increased nutritional crop value, at comparable or lower costs, and long-term soil health, the transition to bio-based farming is given momentum. View in LinkedIn

CELLS FROM MARS. "Fibroblast cells communicate with each other via near infrared light and that their centrioles act as optical detectors." https://lnkd.in/eTtJ_KE View in LinkedIn

OPTICAL CILIA. "Cilia have a similar structure to centrioles as they are cylindrical in shape and consist of nine sets of MT doublets. Cilia have also been established as optical detectors in single cell organisms and primitive visual systems." https://lnkd.in/eTtJ_KE View in LinkedIn

PHOTORECEPTORS. "Rod and cone cells contain a thin ‘connecting cilium’ that bridges the inner and outer segments of the cell. In fact, the light-sensitive portion of the photoreceptors is a modified primary cilium. Photons that arrive at rhodopsin molecules in the outer segment would have first passed through these cilia." https://lnkd.in/eTtJ_KE View in LinkedIn

OPTICAL CILIAL WAVEGUIDES. "As they bear structural resemblance to centrioles, these cilia may act as waveguides for photons in the visible, ultraviolet and infrared spectra in human cells, while simultaneously extracting quantum information on polarization, angular and orbital momentum from photons." https://lnkd.in/eTtJ_KE View in LinkedIn

QUANTUM CELL DIVISION. "As centrioles play a major role in cell division and perform mirror-like activities with high precision, the possibility of quantum entanglement mediated by the quantum optical effects between centrioles has been suggested." https://lnkd.in/eTtJ_KE View in LinkedIn

QUANTUM EFFECTS. "Tunnelling of light-mass particles is a quintessential quantum effect well studied even at the dawn of quantum physics. In biology, it is evident that long-range electron tunnelling and hydrogen tunnelling play important roles in biological redox reactions and enzyme catalysis, respectively." https://lnkd.in/eRUdQZj View in LinkedIn

"PHOTOSYNTHESIS is not the only example of quantum effects in nature." https://lnkd.in/eDJed9B View in LinkedIn