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Influence of plasma activated water on the growth and vitality of Radish (Raphanus sativus L.)

VOZÁR, T. TREBULOVÁ, K. KOZÁKOVÁ, Z. KRČMA, F. ENEV, V. ČECHOVÁ, L.

Original Title

Influence of plasma activated water on the growth and vitality of Radish (Raphanus sativus L.)

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

In this study, plasma activated water (PAW) was prepared by a pin-hole discharge, generating plasma directly in liquids with air flowing into the discharge. Radish (Raphanus sativus) plants were grown in pots filled with soil for 30 days. Pots were divided to 4 variants based on the PAW application: PAW prepared from distilled water (PAW DW), PAW prepared from tap water (PAW TW), foliar application of PAW on leaves and irrigated by tap water (TW/PAW DW) and control group irrigated by tap water (TW). Results have indicated enhancement of the growth of the plant fresh matter in all variants treated by plasma activated water. Vitality of the plants was determined by chlorophyll fluorescence. Fluorescence measurement results have shown inhibition of photosynthesis activity in case of plants treated with PAW compared to control group (TW), which means the treatment of plants with PAW lowers the overall vitality. Elemental analysis results showed that the PAW treatment of plants increased the content of nitrogen in the root part of the radish plants. The sensory evaluation showed that the PAW treatment influenced a certain taste and aesthetic characteristics of R. sativus. Overall, the foliar application of PAW seems to be more convenient option as a plant fertilizer compared to the soil irrigation.

Keywords

Non-thermal plasma, plasma activated water, fluorescence, chlorophyll, radish

Authors

VOZÁR, T.; TREBULOVÁ, K.; KOZÁKOVÁ, Z.; KRČMA, F.; ENEV, V.; ČECHOVÁ, L.

Released

19. 3. 2025

Publisher

IOP Publishing Ltd

Location

Bristol

ISBN

0022-3727

Periodical

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Year of study

58

Number

18

State

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Pages from

1

Pages to

29

Pages count

29

URL

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6463/adc27a

BibTex

@article{BUT197493,
  author="Tomáš {Vozár} and Kristína {Trebulová} and Zdenka {Kozáková} and František {Krčma} and Vojtěch {Enev} and Ludmila {Čechová}",
  title="Influence of plasma activated water on the growth and vitality of Radish (Raphanus sativus L.)",
  journal="Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics",
  year="2025",
  volume="58",
  number="18",
  pages="1--29",
  doi="10.1088/1361-6463/adc27a",
  issn="0022-3727",
  url="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6463/adc27a"
}