"Primeval Code" reactivated:
Living archetypes of plants and animals created at the
laboratory.
Biography:
In laboratory experiments the researchers the Dr. Guido
Ebner and Heinz Schürch exposed cereal seeds and fish eggs
to an "electrostatic field" – in other words, to a high
voltage field, in which no current flows. Unexpectedly
primeval organisms grew out of these seeds and eggs: a fern
that no botanist was able to identify; primeval corn with up
to twelve ears per stalk; wheat that was ready to be
harvested in just four to six weeks. And giant trout,
extinct in Europe for 130 years, with so-called salmon
hooks. It was as if these organisms accessed their own
genetic memories on command in the electric field,
The Swiss pharmaceutical group patented the process – and
then stopped the research in 1992. Why? The discovery was
soon forgotten, without the global scientific community
taking any notice. But this changed: In collaboration with
the researchers involved – or rather their sons - author Luc
Bürgin has for the first time now disclosed in detail how
the principle of this revolutionary bio-experiment works.
Nevertheless many scientists who think along conventional
lines may remain sceptical about this inexplicable
biological effect. But now for the first time, renowned
German expert botanists such as Professor Edgar Wagner of
the University of Freiburg and Professor Gunter Rothe from
the University of Mainz make positive statements about it in
the book. Rothe even had replicated the Ciba experiments in
detail at his university in 2001 – and was successful. And
also for the first time, even a Nobel laureate – the
world-famous Swiss microbiologist Werner Arber – is taking
up the cudgels for this controversial discovery. Back then,
Arber had given an expert opinion on the Ciba experiments in
person in the laboratory. The professor said to the author:
"I was impressed!"
After Guido Ebner and Heinz Schürch both passed away
unexpectedly in 2001, their experiments were continued by
Guido Ebner's son, Daniel – himself a biologist – on a
private basis. Daniel M. Ebner (studies of biology,
chemistry and biostatics at the Universities of Basel and
Montreal) works as Management Consultant at the Swiss
Arcondis company ("Art of Consulting and Development for
Information System", CH-Reinach) in the fields of
pharmaceutical validation processes and information
technology. At the WMF 2008 he will present facts,
reasonings and perspectives of the discovery of his father.
Ebner’s involvement belongs especially in the practical
usage of the discovery for food production of countries in
the Third World.
Examples of re-created plants and animals will be presented
live for the public at the WMF 2008!
The "Primeval Code"
The ecological
alternative to the controversial genetically engineered
seeds of the international agro-multinationals
Title of the lecture of Daniel M. Ebner, Switzerland, at the
"World Mysteries Forum" 2008 in Basel:
"Primeval Code" -
reactivated!
Can the global food problem at last be solved without using
genetic engineering? This new book by Swiss journalist Luc
Bürgin unveils the secret of a sensational biological
discovery at the pharmaceutical giant Ciba (now Novartis),
which unfortunately has been ignored by the experts up to
the present day. In laboratory experiments the researchers
there Dr. Guido Ebner and Heinz Schürch exposed cereal seeds
and fish eggs to an "electrostatic field" in other words, to
a high voltage field, in which no current flows.
Unexpectedly primeval organisms grew out of these seeds and
eggs: a fern that no botanist was able to identify; primeval
corn with up to twelve ears per stalk; wheat that was ready
to be harvested in just four to six weeks. And giant trout,
extinct in Europe for 130 years, with so-called salmon
hooks. It was as if these organisms accessed their own
genetic memories on command in the electric field, a
phenomenon, which the English biochemist, Rupert Sheldrake,
for instance believes is possible.
The Swiss pharmaceutical group patented the process and then
stopped the research in 1992. Why? Because "primeval
cereals" generated by an electric field, in contrast to
modern strains of seeds, require hardly any fertilisers or
pesticides i.e. crop protection agents, sold as priority
products by Ciba at that time. The discovery was soon
forgotten, without the global scientific community taking
any notice.
In collaboration with the researchers involved or rather
their sons, in this book, the author has for the first time
now disclosed in detail how the principle of this
revolutionary bio-experiment works. Previously unpublished
research reports, 64 exclusive photos, English-language
patent specifications and interviews document the "Primeval
Code" in all its aspects.
Nevertheless many scientists who think along conventional
lines may remain sceptical about this inexplicable
biological effect. But now for the first time, renowned
German expert botanists such as Professor Edgar Wagner of
the University of Freiburg and Professor Gunter Rothe from
the University of Mainz make positive statements about it in
the book. Rothe even had replicated the Ciba experiments in
detail at his university in 2001 and was successful. And
also for the first time, even a Nobel laureate the
world-famous Swiss microbiologist Werner Arber is taking up
the cudgels for this controversial discovery. Back then,
Arber had given an expert opinion on the Ciba experiments in
person in the laboratory. The professor said to the author:
"I was impressed!"
Indeed, Guido Ebner and Heinz Schürch appear to have
discovered a biological method of effectively creating
antecedents from progeny without using genetic engineering.
Or as both researchers put it: "Our experiments do not
involve a mutation of the organism in question, which in the
case of genetic engineering involves channelling an
additional gene into the organism. No entirely new organism
is created. In the electrostatic field, only the gene
expression is altered the retrieval of the existing gene.
That is something different."
In addition to corn and trout experiments, the results of
experiments with wheat were also amazing: thus the cereal
exposed to the electrostatic field developed new proteins,
which people looked for in the original wheat to no avail.
Furthermore, it surprisingly produced much larger roots than
the control group. This had the advantage of allowing the
crops to grow far more rapidly. And occasionally in these
experiments, a variant emerged which resembled the genetic
antecedents of the wheat. Thus, a meadow grass-like
arrangement of ear shoots and small narrow leaves was
observed, for example.
"In the case of our 'manipulated' wheat, growth was so rapid
that it was ripe in four weeks instead of the usual seven
months", Heinz Schürch recalled. "However one has to say
that although the ears and stalks were somewhat smaller,
there were more ears per plant. The actual benefit is that
we could cultivate this wheat in regions where spring and
summer are short where conventional wheat cannot be grown at
all." In this case, one can also cheerfully refrain from
using pesticides and herbicides: "The pests that have
adapted to the growth process of normal wheat have not yet
developed when we harvest our wheat as early as four to
eight weeks after planting."
The Third World in particular could benefit from this method
of cultivation that is both environmentally friendly and
inexpensive. For "primeval cereals" from an electric field
yield more than modern genetically engineered varieties and
do not require fertilisers. Furthermore, it is completely
natural and thus healthier. It can be grown by anybody at
minimal cost.
After Guido Ebner and Heinz Schürch both passed away
unexpectedly in 2001, their experiments were continued by
Guido Ebner's son, Daniel himself a biologist – on a private
basis. He now wants to export this electric field technology
to Africa as soon as possible, as part of an aid project,
with the assistance of the former assistant to the UN Food
Representative, Professor Jean Ziegler, in order to make it
available to local farmers free of charge, as an ecological
alternative to the controversial genetically engineered
seeds of the international agro-multinationals.
The
Experiments by Ciba Geigy - An Untold Story
A factual report of Carl R. and Steffen Jachulke
after a television report of H. Heisterkamp on the topic
"Biological experiments with the electric field"
Prologue
It seems a fantastic world in which we were introduced to
our children through stories, pictures and story books. It
seems no less fantastic, as we see today is foreign to us
drawings or engravings of plants or animals of prehistoric
times. Living creatures on our planet thousands of years
ago, or even millions of years existed. Oversized trees and
animals that are long gone. I would not have believed it
possible that animals from a bygone era in our reality is to
get today. It can be done! This report shows how and where
this has happened and what peculiarities connected with it.
A scientific sensation
With an entertainment program of the Swiss television (super
hit on 17/12/1988) it was made public. Million spectators
have witnessed, as Showmaster Kurt Felix introduced two
researchers.
Figure -- The two guests in the show, Kurt Felix Law;
the two researchers in the close-up.
Guido Ebner and Heinz Schürch, two scientists in the
research and development at one of the 10 largest chemical
companies in the world - Ciba-Geigy. The Swiss company sells
chemical products and services in three markets. Health,
agriculture and industry.
Research results were presented which were to remain under
wraps at the moment. Plants can be changed by an
electrostatic field in such a way that they grow as millions
of years ago. So a step backwards in their evolutionary
history experienced. From a traditional male fern with its
feathery leaves had turned around a Hirschzungenfarn
tapering, tongue-like leaves. Some scientists call this
Ciba-Geigy also Urfarn fern.
Figure -- Left is the common male fern. Right: the
experimental result of the electric field of the treated
spores Wurmfarns. In addition, a petrified image.

Plants from prehistoric times, perhaps, could do from the
time of the dinosaurs, perhaps even from the time before ...
The scientists conjecture. Anyway, it's a time warp back in
evolutionary history with the help of our common fern
spores, reproductive cells, ie from the time now treated in
an electric field. Performed in the research laboratories of
the chemical company in Basel.
Figure -- Section of a still living Artvertreters of
Hirschzungen ferns
What the public has been presented is just one part of the
experiments. They also experimented with other crops (mainly
wheat), even with fish. For example, experiments with corn.
In Petri dishes artificial soil and water was tested
together with maize kernels, which were then placed in an
electrostatic field. Static electric fields, stress fields
in which no current flows. There exists a DC voltage up to
several thousand volts, depending on the experimental
arrangement. What alchemists dreamed before several hundreds
of years, actually, the general doctrine is to spite. A
Nobel Prize-breaking discovery.
Figure -- Assistants help prepare the dishes. On the right
is an experimental dish on a high-voltage electrodes.

For three days the corn grains are drawn into the air and
water-sealed Petri dishes in an electric field, then
continue to grow the seeds, like any other plant in a pot or
in the greenhouse. The result after normal growing season is
a corn with a particularly high number of pistons in a heap,
where normally found only in maize is a piston.
Figure --- Heinz Schürch is in the preparation of an
experimental approach. Left is the experimental set-up to
see in which an electric field is applied.
The corn "remembers" how it was. No genetic engineering, no
use of chemicals.
Supposed benefits:
- Higher germination
- Increased resistance to pests and harsh climatic
conditions
- No agrotoxics
Figure -- Left is a conventional hybrid form. Right in the
electric field grown maize. Noteworthy is the fact that up
to 5 flasks grow in one spot.

Corn in today's agriculture
Used are hybrid varieties, hybrid varieties so highly
cultivated, and highly sensitive to their semen can not be
used. I.e. The farmer must be buy new seeds every year, not
only for corn.
The seed production in turn is dominated by multinationals
in the food, agricultural chemicals and petroleum
industries. The same companies that sell and fertilizers,
pesticides and herbicides to farmers. For the chemical
industry is a billion dollar business.
It is the chemistry that the way of agriculture and food
destined. At least now suddenly becomes clear what the tests
actually Ciba-Geigy.
The Basel-based chemical giant, annual sales at about 22
billion Swiss Francs 94 000 employees. Each employee sold
statistically for 235 000 Swiss Francs in chemistry.
Research on and with the electrostatic field is, with the
eyes of the chemical businessman, has called sawing the
branch on which it sits.
Because the findings show, it's possible without chemistry.
At least in many areas. The significance of the research
result lies in the fact that the hereditary characteristics
have been lost through breeding or degeneration, can bring
out again and activate.
Experiments with higher
organisms
In this context the most spectacular attempt at Ciba-Geigy
had been made this time around with ordinary commercially
available rainbow trout. In the laboratory, the females are
taken for this purpose the eggs.
Figure -- Removal of the eggs of the female. Right, the eggs
are subjected to the retort of an artificial insemination.

Figure -- Placing the fertilized eggs in a suitable
experimental setup for the rearing of young fish
These eggs are artificially inseminated and subsequently
exposed for 4 weeks to an electrostatic field. The
experimental arrangement is designed as before with fern and
corn.
Solothurn in Switzerland, in a fish farm. In one of the fish
tanks of the treatment in the electrostatic field that
emerged animals. In another pool, the untreated normal
trout. Same source, different fish?
Here's the proof:
Figure -- Conventional rainbow trout, known fish shop and
restaurant, 2-4 years old. They move slowly, are almost
tame. Colors are visible only weak upper and lower jaws are
not very pronounced. They often have only rudimentary teeth.
Figure -- DC Old Trout emerged from the experiments with the
static electric fields. They are 1/3 larger, heavier,
fleshier, stronger. You have more and stronger teeth are
remarkably strong colors. In adult males of the lower jaw as
in wild salmon is at the front is formed into a powerful
hook.

A statement from the press
office of Ciba
The investigative body of the fish Confederation in Berne
described the animals as an archetype of the trout, which
was about 150 years ago practically extinct. There is no
scientific explanation, it is not until today. Neither the
trout, even in plants. Also a scientific sensation!
Over again, as in plants, a conflict of interest with
Ciba-Geigy. The sale of drugs for the fish part of the
business. The trout, however, need not, therefore, no
business.
European Patent Office in Munich. Three years ago the Swiss
announced a patent on their invention. Patent applicant is
Ciba-Geigy, the inventor, the guests from the show, Kurt
Felix, Guido Ebner and Heinz Schürch. The patent
specification states:
"The present invention relates to a novel process which
leads to permanent useful and desirable properties in fish
that would otherwise not at all or only with considerable
additional costs are generated.
The simplicity of the process measures learns the rearing of
freshwater and saltwater fish, a drastic improvement.
The first thing you'll notice a significantly higher
hatching rate, which often occurs an increase of 100 to 300
percent.
Quite significant is their extremely high survival rate.
This becomes more evident if one does without any drug
treatment.
In addition, the treated fish, with the same diet, increase
much more rapidly in weight and size and for sale as food
fish available. "
Unbeatable ... properties, unimagined possibilities.
The Swiss chemical giant is doing what he does, he stopped
the research. The patent now rests in the drawers of the
European Patent Office and its imitation is prohibited.
After the financial report Ciba-Geigy is the world leader in
crop protection, their sales rising every year. No
experiments? Trout "blue" as usual?
In the annual report of the entity:
"The business activities of Ciba Geigy's long-term
livelihood oriented towards."
From the press office, it was then:
"Ciba has given up by now all these studies, there have been
no further scientific work undertaken in this area because
they can not be assigned to one of the priority research
areas of the company. For this reason, the research industry
in many, many interesting approaches in exploratory projects
will be dropped. "
On 17/12/1988, Kurt Felix then told Swiss television on the
experiment before it was discontinued.
US5048458 // EP0351357
Method of breeding fish
There is disclosed a
novel method which, based on the brief application of
electrostatic fields, induces lasting useful and desirable
properties in fish, which properties cannot otherwise be
induced at all or can only be induced by dint of substantial
additional investment in time and material resources. The
simplicity of the measures proposed in this invention and
the significant results obtained will revolutionize the
breeding of fish, especially edible fish, but also
ornamental fish.

The present invention relates to a novel method which, based
on the brief application of electrostatic fields, induces
lasting useful and desirable properties in fish, which
properties cannot otherwise be induced at all or can only be
induced by dint of substantial additional investment in time
and material resources. The simplicity of the method of this
invention and the significant results obtained make it
possible to improve very substantially the breeding of
freshwater and saltwater fish, especially of edible fish and
also of ornamental fish.
The method of the present invention essentially comprises
exposing early development stages of fish, such as juvenile
fish or preferably eggs, before, during or after
fertilisation, especially eggs in early phases of cell
division, for a short time to electrostatic fields, without
the flow of electric currents. It is particularly preferred
to use eggs during or immediately after fertilisation.
Specifically, in the practice of this invention, tanks
(aquaria) filled with freshwater or saltwater and containing
the fish or eggs, and consisting preferably of electrically
non-conductive material (insulator), are placed between the
electrodes of a capacitor. A directcurrent voltage of one to
tens of thousands of volts is then applied to said
electrodes. Instead of using the non-conductive aquarium
material, it is of course also possible to use electrodes
which are provided with an insulating layer and to immerse
these electrically insulated capacitor plates direct in the
tanks. Of sole importance is that the electrodes of the
capacitor are insulated against the freshwater or saltwater
acting as dielectric medium. As no currents flow in this
apparatus, no perceptible loss of energy is observed. Hence
energy is not a cost factor in this invention.
A further essential feature of this invention is that,
because no electric current flows, the chemical identity of
the system "fish" does not undergo change.
Interest in the investigation of parameters which exert a
direct or indirect activity on physico-chemical interactions
in living organisms has so far centered almost exclusively
on the influence of temperature, pressure, electromagnetic
radiation and electrodynamic fields (alternating fields). In
contrast, far less attention has been paid, for example, to
the investigation into possible interactions of
electrostatic fields on the development of higher organisms,
especially fish.
Only recently have reports become more frequent on the
possible effects of gravitation and magnetic fields on
biological systems. Thus, for example, Goodman and Henderson
[Bioelectromagnetics, 7: 23-29, 1986] have found indications
that a correlation exists between electromagnetic fields and
the rate of transcription in biological material, the rate
being influenced favourably by the applied electromagnetic
field so that enhanced transcription results.
In contrast, it would appear that the possibility that
electrostatic fields might also have an influence on the
course of physico-chemical interactions in organisms,
especially also in early development phases, has so far been
ruled out from the start. Hence there have to date been no
reports on the possible effect of electrostatic fields on
the development of fish.
Experiments have, however, been described (C.A. 95: 165
987b; Vosyliene et al.), in which trout (Salmo iridens) and
carp (Cyprinus carpio) were exposed over long periods to
field strengths of 0.03-0.08 V/cm and 0.06-0.10 V/cm. These
experiments dealt principally with the influence of the
voltage applied on brain development and the excretion of
noradrenalin, depending additionally on the season.
The reason why there has been so little investigation into
the effects of electrostatic fields may primarily be that,
in the light of conventional teaching, it has been assumed
that an electrostatic field in a medium filled with charge
carriers is shielded by the spontaneous formation of an
electric double layer and consequently remains inert in its
effect.
This teaching is based essentially on the equation
formulated by C. Gouy and D. L. Chapman, according to which
the actual thickness of a diffuse double layer for an
electrolyte is ##EQU1## wherein d=the thickness of the
double layer
F=the Faraday constant
.epsilon.=the dielectric constant
R=the universal gas constant
T=the absolute temperature, and
i=the nature of the ions of concentrations ci and valences
zi.
Surprisingly, this prejudice has now been overcome with
respect to fish in the practice of this invention by the
application of simple measures.
In contradistinction to the conventional teaching elaborated
above, the aim has now for the first time been successfully
achieved, within the scope of this invention, of providing a
method by which it is possible to induce in fish lasting
desirable and useful changes, which method is based on a
modification of physico-chemical interactions induced by the
effect of an electrostatic field.
As previously stated, this aim can be achieved most simply
by exposing juvenile fish or fertilised fish eggs to an
electrostatic field, such that the physico-chemical
interactions which take place during cell division and
differentiation, and which it is desired to modify with the
aid of the method of this invention, take place under the
influence of a defined electrostatic field under controlled
conditions.
Accordingly, the present invention relates to a method of
inducing desirable and useful properties in fish, which
comprises a) exposing early development stages of fish to an
electrostatic field, such that the physico-chemical
reactions which it is desired to modify take place under the
influence of a defined electrostatic field under controlled
conditions, but without thereby changing the chemical
identity of the system itself, and
b) keeping said early development stages of fish in said
electrostatic field for a period of time necessary for a
stable development of the desired modification.
Throughout this specification, the expression "early
development stages of fish" shall be understood as meaning
all stages starting from the egg (egg cell), preferably the
fertilised egg, through the different embryonic stages right
up to the hatchable or hatched juvenile fish. These are the
stages of frequent cell division and differentiation in
which the electrostatic fields produce favourable and
lasting results.
Especially preferred in this connection are fish eggs which
are actually fertilised in the static field or which are
exposed to the influence of an electrostatic field only
after fertilisation -- most preferably directly after.
A favourable, and therefore within the scope of this
invention preferred, period of time during which these early
development stages remain in the electrostatic field, is the
time until the eggs ripen, especially until they hatch. This
period of time will normally depend on external conditions,
for example water temperature, the oxygen concentration and
the like, but most especially on the species of fish.
Afterwards, the juvenile fish are transferred to larger
tanks, as is usual in fish breeding, where they mature to a
desired growth stage.
The really surprising feature is that these juvenile fish
which have been pretreated in the described manner and
transferred to normal breeding tanks differ significantly
from untreated control groups.
Firstly, a substantially higher hatching rate of the treated
fish eggs is observed, with frequently an increase of 100 to
300% and even higher values being achieved. Secondly, these
juvenile fish make a far more agile and more vital
impression than the untreated comparison fish. Very
significant is their markedly higher survival rate which
extends not only to their first few days, but virtually to
their entire life cycle. This feature becomes all the more
marked if all medication is dispensed with. For it is then
observed that, in the first few days and weeks, the
untreated control group (not exposed to an electrostatic
field) is at least twice as heavily reduced by the
non-artifically inhibited and naturally occurring population
of pathogens as the fish that have been exposed to treatment
with an electric field. In addition, the treated fish, while
receiving identical feeding, grow in weight and size far
faster and reach adulthood significantly earlier, and hence
can be transferred to natural waters or are available for
marketing as edible or ornamental fish. Further, no
deleterious changes in the progeny of these treated fish are
observed. On the contrary, a certain element of the vitality
seems to be transferable to the progeny.
All in all, the fish treated by the method of this invention
are substantially more vital than the untreated comparison
fish and reach adulthood earlier. For the fish breeder this
means a reduction in the consumption of medicaments and
antibacterial agents, even to the extent of dispensing with
such substances completely, a perceptibly more efficient
utilisation of the fish feed employed, and a shortened
rearing phase. These are advantages which no other expedient
at present known is able to afford.
The mechanism on which the method of this invention is based
is at present not known and will require elucidation in the
future.
On the whole, the application of the method of this
invention results surprisingly, for example, in a favourable
change in the development and growth efficiency, in the
morphogenesis, possibly in the gene expression patterns, in
proneness to stress, resistance to pathogens, and many other
characteristics.
A primary object of this invention is accordingly the
provision of a method of enhancing the efficiency of the
development and breeding of freshwater and saltwater fish.
Especially preferred is a method of enhancing the efficiency
of the development and growth of edible fish.
Also falling within the scope of this invention are the fish
themselves in which change has been induced by the
application of the method of this invention, which fish have
an enhanced development of growth efficiency, and the
progeny thereof, provided these latter still have a novel
and characteristic property of at least one of the parents
in which change has been induced by the method of this
invention.
Within the scope of this invention, an enhanced development
and growth will be understood as meaning, for example, an
increase in the hatching rate and an enhancement of the
growth rate.
A further object of the present invention is the provision
of a method which modifies the specific stress reactions of
fish in desirable and useful manner, especially such that
the treated fish are more robust and reach adulthood faster.
Thus, for example, it is possible to reduce very
substantially the susceptibility of fish to diseases by the
application of the method of this invention, and so to breed
the fish under conditions which would normally be critical
to their health and which would not permit a normal and
controlled development.
Hence the present invention also relates to fish whose
specific reactions to specific stress parameters are
modified in a desirable and useful manner by the application
of the method of this invention, especially those fish which
exhibit increased resistance to pathogens.
More particularly, it is an object of the present invention
to provide a method of vitalising fish, which comprises
a) exposing fertilised fish eggs to an electrostatic field,
without flow of current, or fertilising eggs in said field,
b) adjusting the field strength to values in the range from
1 V/cm to 10@5 V/cm, and
c) maintaining the electrostatic field until the juvenile
fish hatch or mature.
The fertilisation step can, of course, also be carried out
in apparatus of this invention (aquarium with electrodes)
with the voltage already applied.
In the practice of this invention, the electrostatic field
is preferably produced between the electrically insulated
plates of a capacitor.
The field strength of the electrostatic field is determined
by the following equation:
E=U/d
where U is the potential difference between the capacitor
plates, and d is the distance between the plates.
The potential difference U is produced by a high-tension
generator. Any kind of high-tension generator may be used in
the method of this invention. Preferred high-tension
generators are those based on the transformer principle with
rectifier.
The preferred potential difference within the scope of this
invention is from 1.0 V (volt) to 10@5 (V) volt.
For the application of the method of this invention to fish
eggs, potential differences of 1 V to 20 000 V, preferably
of 100 V to 10 000 V, are used. Most preferred is a
potential difference of 500 V to 3 000 V.
The distance between the plates of the capacitor depends on
the dimensions of the aquarium, and is, for example, from
0.01 mm to 1 mm, but is preferably from 1 cm to 10 cm.
In practice, the field strength of the electrostatic field
at the given distance between the plates of the capacitor is
regulated by the strength of the voltage produced by a
high-tension generator.
In the practice of this invention, the field strengths are
preferably from 1 V/cm to 10 000 V/cm, more preferably from
50 V/cm to 5 000 V/cm but, most preferably, from 500 V/cm to
1 000 V/cm.
For the application of the method of this invention, it is
most preferred to use biological material which has a high
rate of division and/or still exhibits little
differentiation, for example cells capable of division.
Specifically, suitable biological material in the context of
this invention comprises fertilised of unfertilised eggs as
well as early embryonic stages right up to hatchable
juvenile fish.
The rate of fertilisation and hatching of fish eggs can be
significantly enhanced under the influence of an
electrostatic field.
All these foregoing particulars cited by way of
exemplification are solely intended to illustrate the
invention and in no way restrict the subject matter thereof.
Most particularly, it is an object of the present invention
to provide a method wherein the development of the
fertilised eggs to juvenile fish takes place in an
electrostatic field in which the field strengths may vary
preferably from 10 V/cm to 3 000 V/cm. Field strengths of
500 V/cm to 1500 V/cm, more particularly of 500 V/cm to 1
000 V/cm, are especially preferred.
First and foremost, the invention provides a method of
enhancing the growth and development efficiency of fish,
which method comprises enhancing the fertilisation, hatching
and survival rate as well as the growth of fish by
a) treating fish eggs with male sperm,
b) placing the treated eggs in incubators in which an
electrostatic field is produced,
c) providing field strengths for the electrostatic field of
10 V/cm to 3 000 V/cm,
d) removing the juvenile fish, after hatching, from the
sphere of influence of the electrostatic field, and
e) rearing said juvenile fish by methods which are known per
se.
The treatment of the fish in the electrostatic field in the
practice of this invention is preferably effected in special
incubators which, in the bottom and in the cover, contain
built-in electrodes which are water-tight and insulated and
are connected to a source for producing a high
direct-current voltage, and with the aid of which an
electrostatic field can be produced inside the incubators.
It is, of course, possible to use any other experimental
apparatus for treating the fish, provided it meets the basic
conditions as set forth above.
After the juvenile fish have hatched, the electric field is
removed and the further rearing of the juvenile fish is
continued by conventional methods free from the influence of
an electric field.
Contrary to all theory, and hence extremely surprisingly, it
has been found that, compared with the controls, the
juvenile fish which have hatched in the electric field have,
in addition to a substantially enhanced fertilisation and
hatching rate, further advantageous properties which then
also develop after removal of the electric field and
influence the further development of the fish.
These further advantageous properties comprise, for example,
an enhanced rate of growth compared with the controls.
Furthermore, the treated fish, compared with the controls,
have a markedly enhanced vitality.
The present invention further relates to the use of the
method of this invention for modifying specific stress
reactions of fish.
Particularly preferred fields of use relate to the
enhancement of resistance to stress, for example to specific
environmental factors such as increased salt concentrations
in the culture medium, limitation of specific nutrients,
limitation of light and/or oxygen, acceptance of pollution
and the like.
One of the most frequent stress factors in the living
environment is deficiency stress, where one or more factors
can simultaneously have a limiting effect.
Deficiency stress occurs as soon as one or more of the
factors essential for optimum growth or development, for
example light, supply of oxygen/carbon dioxide, supply of
nutrients, vitamins and the like, attain suboptimum values.
The consequence is that the affected organism is no longer
able to maintain to the full its ability to generate the
syntheses essential for optimum development and growth,
resulting initially in a retardation of growth. If this
deficiency stress continues for a prolonged period of time,
it results in an impairment of essential functions, leading
then as a rule to early onset of senescence and hence
ultimately to the death of the affected organism.
Not only a deficiency, but also a superfluity, of specific
crucial factors is able to trigger stress reactions.
Increased salt concentrations in the nutrient medium leads,
for example, to a rise in the osmotic value in the medium
and, consequently, to a loss of fluid in the cells present
therein, owing to the onset of osmosis and hence to cell
shrinkage. The loss of fluid can usually be compensated for
to a certain extent by self-regulatory steps taken by the
affected organisms. But if a critical threshold is exceeded,
then this will result in the death of the cells.
The method of this invention can, in principle, be applied
to all species of fish, but preferably to species that are
bred on a commercial scale. In this connection, the
treatment of edible fish is of particular importance, as it
is expected that production costs can be reduced very
considerably with the aid of the method of this invention.
To illustrate the somewhat general nature of the foregoing
description and to contribute to a better understanding of
the invention, reference will now be made to specific
working Examples which are non-limitative in character,
unless special attention is drawn to them. The same applies
to all particulars of an exemplary nature which are
contained in the foregoing description.
NON-LIMITATIVE WORKING EXAMPLES
PRODUCING THE ELECTROSTATIC
FIELD -- EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS
All experiments hereinafter described are carried out in
electrostatic fields which are produced between the plates
of a capacitor.
The electric field strength is given by the equation
E=U/d
where
U is the potential difference (voltage) between the
capacitor plates, and
d is the distance between the capacitor plates.
The voltage is generated by means of a high-tension
generator which operates on the principle of a transformer
with rectifier, normally using voltage differences from 500
volt to 12 000 volt.
The distance between the plates will depend on the
dimensions of the test tanks used in the individual
experiments. Normally the variable parameters U and d will
be chosen such that the field strengths of the electrostatic
field are from 250 V/cm to 1500 V/cm.
The present invention also relates to an apparatus for the
treatment of early development stages of fish with electric
fields, said apparatus comprising
a) a tank suitable for holding the early development stages
of fish in aqueous medium, and
b) a source for producing a voltage and, connected
therewith, an arrangement of electrodes suitable for
producing an electrostatic field in at least a part of the
volume surrounded by the tank, which process is
characterized in that the arrangement of electrodes is
electrically insulated against the medium contained in the
tank and is preferably arranged in form of capacitor plates,
and that the source of voltage is a source of a
direct-current voltage.
Example 1: Effect of an
Electrostatic Field on the Development of Fish
It is possible to influence favourably the development of
animal organisms with the aid of an electrostatic field, as
will be demonstrated in the following experiment carried out
with rainbow trout.
1.1 Experimental Apparatus
(FIG. 1)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE
DRAWING
FIG. 1 is a diagram of a preferred form of the invention,
being an incubator with a source for an electrostatic field.
Trout eggs (1) in batches of 1000 are treated in tanks with
male sperm and immediately placed in incubators. The
incubators consist of 1 liter plexiglass tanks (2) measuring
31.5.times.28.5.times.4.5 cm. Aluminium electrodes (3) which
are sealed air- and water-tight are built into the cover and
bottom of the containers (see FIG. 1).
The incubators are connected to a spring water (4) system of
10 DEG-12 DEG C. and the electrodes are connected to a
high-tension generator (5) (FUG HCN 14-12500, available from
Weter, Schaffhausen, Switzerland). The voltage applied is
215 volt and the space between the plates is 3 cm, so as to
provide a field strength of 716 V/cm between the electrodes.
The fertilisation and ripening of the eggs takes place in
this apparatus. The eye stage is reached after ca. 4 weeks,
and the brood hatches after ca. 8 weeks.
After hatching, the brood is transferred to tanks measuring
50.times.50.times.15 cm with laminar flow and the electric
field is removed, so that the further development of the
juvenile fish may take place free from the influence of the
field.
1.2 Results
Table 4 shows that the number of juvenile fish which have
hatched under the influence of the electrostatic field is
markedly greater than that of the controls.
Compared with the controls, the number of fish which
perished after hatching and after 5 weeks was reduced by
about half with aid of the field.
In addition, a growth increase effect of the field can also
be detected. The size of the juvenile fish hatched under the
influence of the electrostatic field, 10 weeks after
hatching, is from 30 to 40% higher than that of the control
fish (q.v. Table 1).
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with field
free from field
tank 1 tank 2
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hatched juvenile fish
140 244 469
perished after hatching
37 14 19
perished after 5 weeks
10 5 6
size after 10 weeks
2.6 cm 3.4 cm 3.6 cm
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The fish incubated in the field exhibit a markedly greater
vitality.
Transparent sheet
Inventor: EBNER GUIDO DR [CH] // HEFTI HEINZ DR [CH]
Applicant: CIBA GEIGY AG [CH]
EC: A01G9/14E // C08K5/00P4
IPC: A01G9/14 // C08K5/00 // C09K11/02
The invention relates to transparent sheets containing a
fluorescent substance, characterised in that the fluorescent
substance absorbs light of the wavelength 300 to 400 nm and
fluoresces a wavelength range from 430 to 470 nm and in that
the sheet contains the fluorescent substance in such an
amount that, in daylight, the transmission in the wavelength
range from 430 to 470 nm is amplified by more than 10%, and
to a process for improving the photosynthesis rate of
chlorophyll-containing cells and plants, to processes for
preparing the sheet of the invention, and to an arrangement
for improving the photosensitive rate.
Description
The invention relates to transparent film containing a
fluorescent substance with a fluorescence maximum of about
450 nm, their use for increasing the rate of photosynthesis
and for influencing plant growth as well as methods for
their preparation.
There are already partially transparent films become known
containing dyes or fluorescent dyes for influencing plant
growth.
The Swiss patent CH 515 957 relates to transparent foils or
sheets, which in addition to the usual auxiliaries, a dye up
with a minimum permeability in the range of 380 590 nm and a
maximum permeability of 660 to 750 nm.
Similarly, it is suggested in the Austrian Patent AT-270
288, to improve plant growth through the field of red light
(600-700 nm) fluorescent dyes that are applied to suitable
carriers.
This is followed by the on off of EP-A-00 77 496 known
method in which light of wavelength 470 to 600 nm is
absorbed by means of fluorescent dyes and emits in the range
of 600-700 nm.
These, from the prior art devices and methods, is based on
the principle of action to stimulate the rate of
photosynthesis chlorophyll plants by an extra supply of
light of wavelength 600-700 nm.
In contrast, the invention proposes to stimulate the rate of
photosynthesis plant chlorophyll by light starting from
fluorescent substances having an absorption in the range of
300-400 nm (near UV) and an emission in the range of 430 to
470 nm.
As carrier material for the fluorescent substances, a
transparent film is proposed.
The invention thus relates to transparent film containing a
fluorescent substance, characterized in that the fluorescent
material absorbs light of wavelength of 300 to 400 nm and a
wavelength range fluorescing from 430 to 470 nm and that the
film the fluorescent substance in an amount such nm that is
enhanced with natural light transmittance in the wavelength
range of 430 to 470 to more than 10%.
Fluorescent substances of the aforementioned type are known
per se (described, for
, In "Fluorescent Whitening Agents", A. Müller, eds.
, Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, 1975) and used in numerous
industrial areas for improving the color properties using.
According to the invention, those fluorescent substances are
used, in the near UV range (300 to 400 nm) absorption and
thus received excitation energy in the range of 430 to 470
nm, preferably 430 to 450 or 450-470, especially 440-460,
especially in the range 445-460 nm emit.
By applying the fluorescent substance on a transparent film,
the transmission of daylight in the aforementioned areas by
at least 10%, depending on the optical quality of the film,
the amount of fluorescent material and its quantum yield,
the relation and the light amount of UV light of wavelength
300-400 nm and the light quantity of the incident light onto
the film in the aforementioned intervals within 430 to 470
nm, a gain by fluorescence of more than 20, 50 or even 100%
is achieved.
As a reinforcement of the transmission through the
fluorescence is understood with simultaneous irradiation
with UV light in the range of 300 to 400 nm measured
increase in the amount of light in each specified area on
the fluorescence of the light source side facing away from
the film.
Daylight source is the overcast sky or the radiation matched
the overcast sky artificial light source.
Routinely, the spectral composition of daylight in the
measuring apparatus by means of a standardized simulated
daylight source D65 (A. Brocker in "Fluorescent Whitening
Agents", Thieme 1975, p 23).
Transparent films are films with a light transmission of
over 70%, preferably over 90% in the range of 400 to 700 nm
In an especially advantageous manner are suitable
transparent film with a light transmission maximum in the
range of 400-500 nm and 600-700 nm
According to the invention can in principle each slide using
the aforementioned criteria to find the light transmittances
met.
In particular, films made from the following classes of
polymers are suitable: polyester, polyvinyl chloride,
polyolefins such as polyethylene, polypropylene, polyamides,
polystyrene, polyacrylates, regenerated cellulose, such as
cellophane ™ or polyacetates.
As fluorescent substances are in principle all substances
which absorb at 300-400 nm and whose emission maximum in the
range of 430-470 nm, suitable.
In addition, preferred are those substances which are in the
respective selected polymer material molecularly
dispersible.
Particularly suitable are fluorescent substances of the
following classes of compounds:
2,5-bis-benzoxazol-2-yl-thiophene,
4,4-bis-benzoxazole-2-yl-stilbene,
4-phenyl-4'-benzoxazol-2-yl-stilbene,
4,4-distyryl biphenyls,
1,4-bis-benzoxazol-2-yl-naphthalenes,
1,2-bis-benzoxazol-2-yl-ethenes,
4,4-bis (diphenyl-1 ,3,5-triazinyl)-stilbene,
4,4-bis (5-phenyl-1 ,3,4-oxazol-2-yl)-stilbene,
3,7-Disubstituted coumarins or
substituted naphthalenes.
The following compounds are proposed:
# 1: 4,4-bis-benzoxazol-2-yl-stilbene of formula
EMI12.1
# 2: 2,5-bis-benzoxazol-2-yl-thiophene of the formula
EMI12.2
# 3: 2,5-bis-(5-tert-butyl-benzoxazol-2-yl)-thiophene of the
formula
EMI12.3
# 4: 4,4-di-(2-methoxy-beta-styryl)-biphenyl of the formula
EMI12.4
No. 5: 4,4 '-disubstituted biphenyls of the formula
EMI12.5
# 6: 1,4-bis-benzoxazol-2-yl-naphthalene of formula
EMI13.1
# 7: 1,4-bis-(5-methoxycarbonyl-benzoxazol-2-yl)-stilbene of
formula
EMI13.2
No. 8: 4,4-bis-[5 - (4-tert-butyl) phenyl-1
,3,4-oxadiazol-2-yl]-stilbene of formula
EMI13.3
No. 9: 4,4-bis-[4,6 - (p-tolyl)
-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl]-stilbene of formula
EMI13.4
# 10: min 4-phenyl-4 - (5-tert-butyl)
benzoxazol-2-yl-stilbene of formula
EMI14.1
# 11: 1,2-bis-(5-methylbenzoxazole-2-yl)-ethene of the
formula
EMI14.2
No. 12: 7 - (benzo [c] benzotriazol-2-yl)-3-phenylcoumarin
of the formula
EMI14.3
No. 13: 1 - [4 - (2-cyanoethenyl)-phenyl] -2 -
(naphthalen-1-yl)-ethene of the formula
EMI14.4
# 14: 4 - (O-methoxyiminomethyl) -4
min-cyanoethenyl-stilbene of formula
EMI14.5
According to the invention usable fluorescent substances may
be applied by known methods to the serving as a carrier
transparent film.
Must be ensured in the selection of appropriate procedures,
that the fluorescent material primarily on the transparent
substrate in a molecular dispersed distribution (dissolved)
is present.
A particularly suitable method may be mentioned, for small
and medium-sized batches: the transfer printing, dipping and
coating processes for medium and large batches: the
incorporation of the fluorescent substance in the polymer as
well as diving and painting activities.
When transferring pressure from the fluorescent material is
a first - given support material - usually made of cotton or
tissue paper existing one.
The printable transparent film is then brought into close
contact with the carrier material.
The excretion of the fluorescent substance in the film is
then, as usual, at transfer pressure, effected by heating
under contact.
Many polymers swell under the action of suitable solvents
and can take up dissolved in the solvent substances that
remain then distributed by removing the solvent in the
polymer molecularly.
By means of this effect can be the fluorescent materials by
dip-coating process and solvent baths with solvents or with
molecularly incorporated into the film transparende.
In a particularly advantageous manner, the fluorescent
substance to be incorporated before the film production and
as an additive in the polymer material.
In this case, both the fluorescent agent may be incorporated
by melting or mixing in the production of film serving
granules or it is added during film extrusion in a
conventional manner as other additives and thus dissolved in
the melt of the polymer.
Also, the fluorescent substances are added at the stage of
polymerization or polycondensation.
Depending on the polymeric support material in which they
are contained, the emission maxima of the fluorescent
substances vary within certain limits.
Are particularly suitable for polyester compounds 1, 2, 6, 7
and 9 to 14
Polyamides are particularly suitable for compounds 8 and 10
The compounds 3, 4 and 6 are preferably polyvinyl chloride
or polyolefins.
Compound 5 is particularly suitable for regenerated
cellulose.
The transparent sheets can contain not only the registration
according to still another fluorescent materials commonly
used in film production assistants and additives such as
plasticizers, stabilizers, supporting tissue, hardeners,
etc. to a limited extent, UV-absorbers.
The concentration of fluorescent substances in the film is
determined by the respective desired reinforcing effect and
can be determined by simple preliminary tests.
In general, the fluorescent agent is present in
concentrations of 0.01 to 1% distributed in molecularly
disperse before serving as carrier material film.
The principle underlying the invention can be used as a
light amplification in the range of 430 nm understood to
470.
In this range the short-wavelength absorption maximum of
chlorophyll.
Accordingly, the inventive films can be found to stimulate
the rate of photosynthesis chlorophyll cell systems used.
In addition to land-based plants can especially in aqueous
medium living cell systems, such as algae, are
advantageously affected by the application according to
transparent film in its growth.
The inventive films are particularly suitable for use in
agriculture, horticulture or fruit.
The application according to the foils are attached in a
known manner between the plants and the light source,
usually daylight so that the largest part of the incident on
the plant light passes through the film and into the type
described above by means of fluorescence in the 430 470 nm
is amplified.
In practical application, the films can therefore over the
seed-containing soil or on the plant or placed by means of
suitable constructions in a conventional manner used as
plant tunnel or greenhouse covers are.
The inventive films are particularly suitable for the
limited light availability, especially on cloudy days to
improve by fluorescence light: depending on the particular
plant variety, a certain amount of light are assumed to be
the lowest threshold, below which the rate of photosynthesis
of the plant or the chlorophyll-containing cell is no longer
sufficient to the plant or the cell alive.
Due to an orienting test (Example 2b), this value in the
range of about 1000 mu W cm <-2> for watercress are
accepted as a test plant.
Measurements of the intensity of daylight under overcast
skies (Example 2c) show that under the conditions occurring
in temperate latitudes often a covered sky the limit is
already reached.
By fluorescence light can offer for the plant usable in the
range of 430-470 nm can be increased to such a degree that
the light intensity does not drop below the critical level
for plant growth.
Example 1
Film: Melinex polyester film type 0, manufacturer ICI, film
thickness 75 microns
Fluorescent substance - 2,5-bis-benzoxazol-2-yl-thioben of
the formula
EMI17.1
- 1 - [4 - (2-cyanoethenyl)-phenyl] -2 -
(naphthalen-1-yl)-ethene of the formula
EMI18.1
- 4 - (O-methoxyiminomethyl) -4 min-cyanoethenyl-stilbene of
formula
EMI18.2
Photometer:
Kerry 219 - Photometer Lamps:
Halogen-tungsten lamp, 150 watt, Xenophot, Osram, HLX 64 640
The fluorescent substance is applied to the HT process on
the film.
For use, the polyester film is colored with a content of
0.1% of the aforementioned compound.
The liquor ratio is 1: 50, being used as the dispersant 1 g
/ l P Irgasol.
The dyebath is heated in a pressure vessel within 30 min
from 40 to 130 ° C and maintained for 30 min at 130 ° C.
After obtaining the film is rinsed with acetone.
The transmission values ??at 430, 440, 450, 460 and 470 nm
are shown in Table I:
Table I
EMI19.1
Example 2 influencing plant growth by fluorescent light
Example 2a: Normalization of daylight lamp
As a daily source of light a 100-W light bulb-type plants
Ormalight is used.
Which is in the range 25 to 150 cm measured light energy in
Table II:
Distance [cm] Light energy [mu watts. cm <-2>]
(uncorrected)
25 4600 50 1500 75 870 100 530 125 420 150 240
Example 2b: Determination of the limiting light offer
In a darkened chamber in pots sown seeds of watercress
illuminated with a daylight lamp in accordance with Example
2 in 25, 50, 75, 100, 125 and 150 cm from the top.
After 4 weeks the condition of the plants is evaluated.
The illuminated from 25 to 50 cm from plants develop
normally, while the dead are from 75, 100, 125 and 150 cm
illuminated plants.
Example 2c: Determination of the amount of daylight in
heavily overcast sky
On 4
June 1984 at 9.00 shall be measured with a UDT Radiometer
140 X in Basel / Switzerland, the amount of light, such as:
total light (300-700 nm): 1200 mu W cm <-2> UV portion
(300-400 nm): 120 mu W cm <-2> proportion of visible
(400-700 nm): about 1080 mu W cm <-2>
Example 2d: Plant growth with insufficient daylight and
additional fluorescent light
Daylight source: lamp according to Example 2a UV light
source: UV lamps from Camag (Catalog No. 29 230) with an
emission maximum at 366 nm
UV filter: To ensure that no visible light is guided by the
UV sources of the experimental arrangement, the outlet
openings with UV filters type UV-11 (transmission range
250-400 nm) and the Schott Schleifer covered.
Investigated films: film A Melinex polyester film type = 0,
manufacturer ICI, film thickness 75 mu.
Film B = film according to Example 1, containing 0.1% of
compound 2 foil C = film according to Example 1, containing
0.1% of compound 12 film D = Film according to Example 1,
containing 0.1% of compound 13
The seeds sown in pots of watercress in a dark room between
two sides established UV light sources, which are coated
with transparent fluorescent films prepared, and their
growth with a blank sample (film A) were compared.
The entire experimental arrangement is from the top of the
distance 75 cm irradiated with a daylight lamp in Example
2a.
The growth of test plants will be evaluated weekly.
The irradiated through the films B, C and D watercress
developing normally, with a strong preference for the
lateral growth direction to the UV light sources is observed
for.
Apart from the plants develop up to the 9th
Week in which the experiment was terminated normally.
The irradiated film A by water cress sprouts initially grow
normally and straight up.
In the second week, shows a strong "fear growth."
In the third week the plants begin to wither and die off in
the fourth week.
US6238663
Method for treating
hyperkeratotic disease with a Halobacterium halobium
lysate
Inventor:EBNER GUIDO [CH]
Applicant: INST OF PHARMACEUTICAL RES AG [US]
EC: A01G7/04 // C12N13/00
IPC: A01G7/04 // A01K67/00 // A61K31/07