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Interactions of Mutiple Biological Fields in Stored Grain Ecosystems

Biological entities such as fungi in stored grain evolve and interact with the environment in similar fashions as physical fields. An experiment was conducted to study the behavior of the biological field of fungi in stored grain, as well as the interactions between the biological field of fungi and...

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Autores principales: Wu, Z. D., Zhang, Q., Yin, J., Wang, X. M., Zhang, Z. J., Wu, W. F., Li, F. J.
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7283473/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32518259
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66130-6
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author Wu, Z. D.
Zhang, Q.
Yin, J.
Wang, X. M.
Zhang, Z. J.
Wu, W. F.
Li, F. J.
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description Biological entities such as fungi in stored grain evolve and interact with the environment in similar fashions as physical fields. An experiment was conducted to study the behavior of the biological field of fungi in stored grain, as well as the interactions between the biological field of fungi and the physical fields of temperature and moisture. A framework of the biological field is presented to describe biological systems in which multiple biological entities co-exist and interact among themselves and with the surrounding environment. The proposed biological field describes the spatio-temporal distribution of a biological entity and its ability of influencing (or being influenced by) the surrounding biotic and abiotic entities through exchange of energy, matter, and/or information. The strength of a biological field of fungi was quantified as the rate of energy conversion by fungi from grain starch to heat. The experimental data showed that the strength of biological field of fungi in stored grain varied in both space and time, with the maximum field strength of 120–133 W m(−3) occurred at the location where the biological field of fungi interacted strongly with the temperature and moisture fields.
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spelling pubmed-72834732020-06-15 Interactions of Mutiple Biological Fields in Stored Grain Ecosystems Wu, Z. D. Zhang, Q. Yin, J. Wang, X. M. Zhang, Z. J. Wu, W. F. Li, F. J. Sci Rep Article Biological entities such as fungi in stored grain evolve and interact with the environment in similar fashions as physical fields. An experiment was conducted to study the behavior of the biological field of fungi in stored grain, as well as the interactions between the biological field of fungi and the physical fields of temperature and moisture. A framework of the biological field is presented to describe biological systems in which multiple biological entities co-exist and interact among themselves and with the surrounding environment. The proposed biological field describes the spatio-temporal distribution of a biological entity and its ability of influencing (or being influenced by) the surrounding biotic and abiotic entities through exchange of energy, matter, and/or information. The strength of a biological field of fungi was quantified as the rate of energy conversion by fungi from grain starch to heat. The experimental data showed that the strength of biological field of fungi in stored grain varied in both space and time, with the maximum field strength of 120–133 W m(−3) occurred at the location where the biological field of fungi interacted strongly with the temperature and moisture fields. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7283473/ /pubmed/32518259 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66130-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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