Polarity effect on growth acceleration of arabidopsis thaliana by DC electric field

Author

Okumura, Takashi ; Muramoto, Yoshifumi ; Shimizu, N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Meijo Univ., Nagoya, Japan

fYear

2013

fDate

June 30 2013-July 4 2013

Firstpage

591

Lastpage

594

Abstract

We have been studying the effect of dc electric field on plant growth. It is clearly indicated that the dc field increases the plant growth. In our recent study, the seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress) were cultivated under 0.0 kV/m, 2.5 kV/m, 5.0 kV/m, 1.0 kV/m, and 15.0 kV/m. The results are briefly summarized as follows: (i) dc field increases seed germination rate. (ii) It is suggested that the optimum field strength for plant growth exists around 10.0 kV/m. The effect of dc field polarity on plant growth also should be studied. In this report, we examined the polarity effect on growth acceleration of Arabidopsis thaliana by dc electric field.

Keywords

agricultural engineering; electric fields; Arabidopsis thaliana seeds; dc electric field; grain production; growth acceleration; optimum field strength; plant growth; polarity effect; Acceleration; Conferences; Cotton; Dielectrics; Electric fields; Plasmas; Solids; Arabidopsis thaliana; dc electric field; plant growth acceleration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid Dielectrics (ICSD), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bologna

ISSN

2159-1687

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0807-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSD.2013.6619702

Filename

6619702