Plasma-assisted priming : improved germination and seedling performance of papaya

• Main Authors: Deng-Ke, Xi, Ling Yap, Seong, Nitturi Naresh Kumar,, Chian, Cheng Toh, Ishikawa, Kenji, Hori, Masaru
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2023
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/21624/1/SD%2021.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/21624/; http://www.ukm.my/jsm/index.html

Papaya is a one of the important tropical fruit crops with a global export of 353 ktonnne reported in 2020. The germination of papaya seed is erratic and often non-uniform. Plasma assisted priming of seed was performed at atmospheric pressure in a parallel plate dielectric barrier discharge system....