Food security is one of the most important challenges worldwide and will become even more
challenging with increasing impacts of climate change. Developing ways of increasing the …

Seeds are vulnerable to physical and biological stresses during the germination process.
Seed priming strategies can alleviate such stresses. Seed priming is a technique of treating …

Field crops are subjected to drought at different growth stages and cause for substantial
yield loss in major crops, thus threaten to global food security. The crop researcher have …

Radiation is widespread in nature, including ultraviolet radiation from the sun, cosmic
radiation and radiation emitted by natural radionuclides. Over the years, the increasing …

Low-temperature atmospheric pressure plasma has been used in various fields such as
plasma medicine, agriculture, food safety and storage, and food manufacturing. In the field of …

Nitrogen fixation is crucial for plants as it is utilized for the biosynthesis of almost all
biomolecules. Most of our atmosphere consists of nitrogen, but plants cannot …

Cold atmospheric or low pressure plasma has activation effects on seed germination, plant
growth and development, and plant sustainability, and prior experimental studies showing …

Nonthermal plasma (NTP), or cold plasma, has shown many advantages in the agriculture
sector as it enables removal of pesticides and contaminants from the seed surface …

Among the innovative technologies being elaborated for sustainable agriculture, one of the
most rapidly developing fields relies on the positive effects of non-thermal plasma (NTP) …

Since the earliest agricultural attempts, humankind has been trying to improve crop quality
and yields, as well as protect them from adverse conditions. Strategies to meet these goals …