Special Issue "Effects of Non-thermal Plasma Treatment on Plant Physiological and Biochemical Processes II"
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Physiology and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 4147
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cell biology; plant biochemistry; stress response and signal transduction; bioenergetics, systems biology; plasma applications for agriculture
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Interests: seed biology and ecology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The potential of cold plasma-based applications in sustainable agriculture is supported by numerous studies which have gathered experimental evidence that plasma treatment of seeds, water, or plants can be used to improve yields, increase the size and the robustness of plants, and reduce the need of antifungal agents, as well as other chemicals. However, the development of reliable and manageable agro-biotechnologies is ultimately based on the understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying such effects. Despite considerable efforts, such knowledge still remains elusive. Recent breakthroughs in this area are strongly linked to recent discoveries in plant physiology and biochemistry related to topics of plant plasticity, adaptability, stress response and communication. Short plasma treatments of plant materials can induce various changes in plant development and metabolism that persist for a long time. We are only beginning to understand how to use very complex molecular mechanisms for the mobilisation of plant resources and for improvement in agricultural plant performance. It is likely that investigations of plasma-induced changes in plant physiological and biochemical processes may reveal new facts of both fundamental and applied importance. This Special Issue of Plants aims to present the most recent findings on changes in plant signal transduction, metabolism, development, and physiological processes induced by the exposure of seeds or plants to cold plasma or plasma-activated water and leading to increased plant productivity.
Prof. Dr. Vida Mildažienė
Dr. Božena Šerá
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antioxidant
- assimilation of minerals and nutrients
- biomass production
- biosynthesis
- cold plasma
- enzyme activity
- germination
- gene expression
- metabolism
- nitrogen fixation
- nutritive value
- protein expression
- photosynthesis
- phytohormones
- plasma activated water
- resistance to pathogens
- ROS production
- secondary metabolites
- signal transduction
- stress resistance
- plant growth
- productivity
- transpiration
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Planned Papers
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Title: Growth Stimulation of Durum Wheat and Buckwheat by Non-thermal Plasma
Authors: Barbora Tunklová 1; Božena Šerá 2; Petra Šrámková 3; Sandra Ďurčányová 3; Michal Šerý 4; Dušan Kováčik 3; Anna Zahoranová 3; František Hnilička 1
Affiliation: 1. Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, Kamýcká 129, 165 00 Prague, Czech Republic.
2. Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Environmental Ecology and Landscape Management, Ilkovičova 6, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia Bratislava, Slovakia.
3. Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Department of Experimental Physics, 842 48 Mlynská Dolina, Bratislava, Slovakia.
4. University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Education, Department of Physics, Jeronýmova 10,371 15 České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
