Effect of Cold Plasma Treatment on Seed Germination and Growth of Wheat

JIANG Jiafeng(蒋佳峰); HE Xin(何昕); LI Ling(李玲); LI Jiangang(李建刚); SHAO Hanliang(邵汉良); XU Qilai(徐启来); YE Renhong(叶仁宏); DONG Yuanhua(董元华)

doi:10.1088/1009-0630/16/1/12

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JIANG Jiafeng(蒋佳峰), HE Xin(何昕), LI Ling(李玲), LI Jiangang(李建刚), SHAO Hanliang(邵汉良), XU Qilai(徐启来), YE Renhong(叶仁宏), DONG Yuanhua(董元华). Effect of Cold Plasma Treatment on Seed Germination and Growth of Wheat[J]. Plasma Science and Technology, 2014, 16(1): 54-58. DOI: 10.1088/1009-0630/16/1/12

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Effect of Cold Plasma Treatment on Seed Germination and Growth of Wheat

1 Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China 2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China 3 Changzhou Zhongke Changtai Plasma Technology Corporation, Changzhou 213022, China 4 Jiangsu Provincial Agricultural Reclamation and Development Corporation, Nanjing 210008, China 5 Agricultural Center of Jiangsu Xinyang Farm, Yancheng 224314, China

Funds: supported by Jiangsu Province Science and Technology Support Program of China (No.BE2013452) and Main Direction Program of Knowledge Innovation of Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.KSCX-EW-B-6)

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Received Date: August 20, 2013

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This study investigated the effect of cold helium plasma treatment on seed germina- tion, growth and yield of wheat. The effects of different power of cold plasma on the germination of treated wheat seeds were studied. We found that the treatment of 80 W could significantly improve seed germination potential (6.0%) and germination rate (6.7%) compared to the control group. Field experiments were carried out for wheat seeds treated with 80 W cold plasma. Compared with the control, plant height (20.3%), root length (9.0%) and fresh weight (21.8%) were improved significantly at seedling stage. At booting stage, plant height, root length, fresh weight, stem diameter, leaf area and leaf thickness of the treated plant were respectively increased by 21.8%, 11.0%, 7.0%, 9.0%, 13.0% and 25.5%. At the same time, the chlorophyll content (9.8%), nitrogen (10.0%) and moisture content (10.0%) were higher than those of the control, indicating that cold plasma treatment could promote the growth of wheat. The yield of treated wheat was 7.55 t·ha ⁻¹, 5.89% more than that of the control. Therefore, our results show that cold plasma has important application prospects for increasing wheat yield.
- cold plasma,
- seed treatment,
- wheat,
- seed germination,
- plant growth,
- increased yield

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