Technical Advances in Plasma Agriculture
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2026 | Viewed by 2023
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plasma agriculture; physics for life sciences; X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy; scanning electron microscopy; soil analysis; green technologies
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Dear Colleagues,
Considering the recent necessary trend for green agriculture technologies, plasma, especially non-thermal discharges, has been shown to be an excellent candidate in several such applications. Direct non-thermal plasma treatments or those using water or other plasma-activated liquids have been proven to stimulate the development of plants and the production of nutraceutical compounds, fight pests, or help plants deal with abiotic stress. Post-harvesting treatments might also reduce the microbial load of vegetables and fruits through user-friendly and environmentally friendly techniques without making use of any dangerous chemicals. Despite being a little more than a decade old, the field of plasma agriculture still has much to discover. This Special Issue focuses on recent advances that apply technology out of the lab for field implementation and work on determining the mechanisms of interaction between plasma and the targeted biological medium, the mechanism responsible for the promising results obtained in the field.
Dr. Iuliana Motrescu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- green agriculture
- environmentally friendly techniques
- non-thermal discharges
- non-thermal plasma (NTP)
- non-thermal plasma treatments
- atmospheric pressure plasma
- plasma-activated liquids
- plasma-treated water (PTW)
- plasma-activated water (PAW)
- pre-sowing seed treatments
- post-harvesting treatments
- seed germination
- growth enhancement
- germination percentage
- seedling growth
- yield
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