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Magnetic field effects on plants and fungi
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EXPERIMENTS
WITH CHESTNUT BUDS
(Castanea sativa Mill.) |
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In our past work we studied the effects of weak magnetic on
the growth of buds of Castanea sativa Mill. Sterile
tissue culture technique was used with following MFs and regimes
of exposure:
1) sinusoidal MF : 50 Hz; 1.2, 3.2 and 5.9 mT; 1 h/day,
28 days. The results showed the stimulative effect on the growth
and rooting of shoots in June (1.2, 3.2 and 5.9 mT), inhibition
in August (3.2 mT) and stimulative effects again in December
(5.9 mT). Rooting was stimulated with 5.9 mT (Ruzic et al. 1992).
2) pulsed MF: 2 and 24 Hz; pulse
duration 0.055 s; 250 µT, 1 h/day, 2 h/day, 24 h/day and 24 h/day every
other day, 28 days. The results showed that MF 1 h/day, 24
Hz stimulated the growth of shoots and at 2 Hz it induced axillary
buds in January and October (Ruzic et al.1993).
Our references
- Ruzic R., Jerman I., Jeglic A., Fefer
D. (1992): Electromagnetic stimulation of buds of Castanea
sativa Mill. in tissue culture. Electro. Magnetobiol. 11(2):
145-153. Abstract
- Ruzic R., Jerman
I., Jeglic A., Fefer D. (1993): Various effects of pulsed
and static magnetic fields on the developmentof Castanea
sativa Mill. in tissue culture. Electro. Magnetobiol.
12(2):165-177. Abstract
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