ArticleScientific reports2018
Cold plasma treatment for cotton seed germination improvement.
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- Direct plasma treatment of caryopses after flowering in brewer's rice cultivar Yamadanishiki enhanced those grain qualities through "Smart Agriculture System".Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Impact of dielectric barrier discharge plasma and plasma-activated water on cotton seed germination and seedling growth.Heliyon · 2024Article
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- Innovative Application of Cold Plasma Technology in Meat and Its Products.Food science of animal resources · 2023Review
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- Germination and First Stages of Growth in Drought, Salinity, and Cold Stress Conditions of Plasma-Treated Barley Seeds.ACS agricultural science & technology · 2023Article
- Plasma immobilization of azobenzene dye on polyamide 6 polymer.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The Application of Cold Plasma Technology in Low-Moisture Foods.Food engineering reviews · 2023Review
- Enhancement of Wheat Seed Germination, Seedling Growth and Nutritional Properties of Wheat Plantlet Juice by Plasma Activated Water.Journal of plant growth regulation · 2023Article
- Enhancement of germination and yield of cotton through optical seed priming: Lab. and diverse environment studies.PloS one · 2023Article
- Applications of atmospheric cold plasma in agricultural, medical, and bioprocessing industries.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2022Review
- The Modulatory Effects of Non-Thermal Plasma on Seed's Morphology, Germination and Genetics-A Review.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Magnetic Water Treatment: An Eco-Friendly Irrigation Alternative to Alleviate Salt Stress of Brackish Water in Seed Germination and Early Seedling Growth of Cotton (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Adverse environmental conditions at planting, such as cold temperature or water limitation, can lead to a reduced level of seed germination and plant establishment for cotton. Cold atmospheric-pressure plasma (CAP) treatment of cotton seeds prior to planting may help alleviate this problem. CAP is ionised gas that has a range of biological activities due to the formation of a mix of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS), excited molecules, charged particles and UV photons. Our results show that a 27 minutes CAP treatment using air can significantly increase water absorption of the seed, and improve warm germination, metabolic chill test germination and chilling tolerance in cotton. We also observe that the beneficial effect of CAP treatment is long-lasting and stable as improved germination activity is still seen when treatment occurs 4 months before germination testing, suggesting that future large-scale industrial seed plasma treatments may still be effectively applied well (months) before the seed planting. We conclude that CAP treatment is a promising new tool for use in the cotton industry that has the potential to significantly improve plant establishment in a wider range of environmental conditions.
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