The effect of activated water on the photosynthetic processes of plants

FSBSI “Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center VIM”, 109428, Moscow, Russia

^* Corresponding author: knyazewa.inna@yandex.ru

Abstract

The article is devoted to the research of the effect of nutrient solutions prepared on the basis of activated water: anolyte and catholyte on glucose synthesis during photosynthesis using the example of seedlings of vegetable crops: Japanese cabbage of the Mizuna variety, peas of the vegetable variety “Zima”, cucumber of the variety “Vsyo putyom”. The research was carried out to determine the mechanism of activated water influence on photosynthesis. As a result, the proposed working hypothesis on the effectiveness of the activated water influence on photosynthetic processes was confirmed. It has been shown that glucose synthesis is closely related to the reduction of absorbed CO₂ by NADPH⁺ and ATP during photophosphorylation, and then their direct participation in this synthesis. It has been established that the increased concentration of hydrogen protons formed during the photolysis of activated water is the reason for the effectiveness of glucose synthesis, and, consequently, productivity. It has been shown that positively charged hydrogen ions H⁺ involved in photophosphorylation, forming NADPH⁺, which together with H⁺ is involved in glucose synthesis, during photolysis of water during photosynthesis have a concentration of ions 3.13·10⁵ times higher in anolyte (534.67·10^-4 M/l) than in inactive water (170.67·10^-9 M/l), which provides, in comparison with the control, an increase in glucose synthesis by 26.7% for Japanese cabbage of the Mizuna variety; by 39.7% for peas of the vegetable variety “Zima” and by 33.3% for cucumber of the variety “Vsyo Putyom”. At the same time, for plants of vegetable peas “Zima”, an increase in the intensity of growth in the anolyte was noted in comparison with the control by 12.5%.