Does ozone treatment of maize seeds influence their germination and growth energy?

Dmitry Normov,Tanja Bohinc,Andrey Shevchenko,Tatiana Normova,Stanislav Trdan,Raisa Goldman,Evgenii Chesniuk,Denis Pozhidaev

doi:10.14720/aas.2019.114.2.10

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https://doi.org/10.14720/aas.2019.114.2.10

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Abstract

This article evaluated the pre-sowing treatment of seeds with electroozonation. A full factor experiment on the influence of the parameters of the technological process of electroozone treatment on the sowing qualities of maize seeds was carried out. Based on the experimental data, the effect of ozone concentration, treatment time and the time before sowing and after treatment on the germination ability, germination energy and growing energy of maize seeds was determined. According to the results of the study, the corresponding regression equations were calculated, graphical dependencies were constructed and method parameters for the pre-sowing treatment of maize seeds with ozone were determined.

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To increase production and improve the quality of crop production, it is necessary to reduce crop losses from diseases, various pests, and weeds
Pre-sowing treatment of planting material is of great importance in the intensive system of crop production
During the 1930s to 1940s, professor Chizhevsky systematized and substantiated the positive effect of the use of charged particles of oxygen and ozone when exposed to living organisms and plants (Chizhevsky, 2015)

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To increase production and improve the quality of crop production, it is necessary to reduce crop losses from diseases, various pests, and weeds. Pre-sowing treatment of planting material is of great importance in the intensive system of crop production. The main process of pre-sowing treatment of seeds is sterilization aimed at destroying external and internal infections. Despite the external effectiveness of the use of chemical processing methods, they have a number of serious drawbacks. The use of chemicals is associated with danger to humans and environmental pollution (Yeoh, 2014). The development of new alternative seed treatment methods is an important scientific task. During the 1930s to 1940s, professor Chizhevsky systematized and substantiated the positive effect of the use of charged particles of oxygen and ozone when exposed to living organisms and plants (Chizhevsky, 2015)

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