2019 Volume 139 Issue 10 Pages 461-462
This paper describes an effect of transient electromagnetic fields (or pulsed electromagnetic fields) on the growth of radish. In our experiment, two kinds of transient electromagnetic fields by spark discharges were applied to seeds and seedlings of radish. In this experiment, the pulse widths of discharge current (800 A) were set to 3 µs and 15 µs, respectively. As a result, we found that the growth rates for the pulse width of 3 µs became greater than others (control [no application] and the pulse width of 15 µs) by around 23-38% especially when the temperature was high.
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