Further Data on Wheat Germination and Silver Nitrate: Low and Medium Dilutions

Background: In pilot studies (GIRI 2016, HRI 2015), wheat grains were observed under aqueous low solutions of silver nitrate, either diluted in distilled water in steps of 1:10 by pipetting only (“e”) or diluted and agitated (“x”). Untreated distilled water served as additional control (W0). Probes were applied blindly. Germination rates after 28h were higher under “x” than under “e” (p < 0.01 in both studies). System stability was tested and found adequate (GIRI 2018), silver nitrate concentrations were measured and found correctly prepared (GIRI 2019), and it was shown that agitated water did not lead to enhanced germination versus non-agitated water, thus excluding the possibility of an effect of higher oxygen saturation in x-probes (GIRI 2018).