ApocaDocs: Using electrons to treat organic seeds

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Posted Mon Oct 13 2008: from Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft:


	Using electrons to treat organic seeds http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1223910500 Sales of organic products are booming: Consumers want their food to be untainted. To avoid the use of fungicides yet nevertheless protect plants from disease, researchers have developed a method that involves bombarding seeds with electrons to kill fungal spores and viruses.... So what happens when the electrons hit the seeds? "It's not unlike cooking. For instance, when you make strawberry jam, the germs are killed by the high temperature -- and your jam will keep for years. The electrons destroy the chemical bonds that hold together the molecules in the fungal spores and other pathogens, but without generating heat. You might say that they cause the molecules to explode," explains Roder.

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The ApocaDocs say:

Exploding molecules doesn't sound very organic.