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Agronomía Colombiana

versão impressa ISSN 0120-9965

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TORRES, Celina; DIAZ, Jaime E.  e  CABAL, Paola Andrea. Magnetic fields effect over seeds germination of rice (Oryza sativa L.) and tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) . Agron. colomb. [online]. 2008, vol.26, n.2, pp.177-185. ISSN 0120-9965.

Seeds that are unable to germinate easily are known as dormant ones and, in some cases, special treatments are required to make them germinate. There are some species, for that the way to achieve germination of seeds is not known and the mechanisms that make seeds become dormant are often ignored. In order to develop the new technologies that may contribute to improvement of germination in dormant seeds, this research examined the effect of magnetic fields with strengths of 5 mT and 10 mT over the germinating process of rice (Oryza sativa L.) and tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) seeds. The increase of biomass in seedlings belonging to these species was also studied. The O. sativa and S. lycopersicum seeds were exposed to magnetic fields at periods of time 1, 10, 20, and 60 min and 24 and 48 h. Petri dishes and styrofoam flowerpots were used for the experiments. Fourteen treatments were made with four replicates per species. The results showed positive effects over the seed germination in O. sativa seeds with exposure times of 1 min and 48 h. In S. lycopersicum seeds, a 10 min-exposure showed positive effects as compared with control seeds. The seedlings from these species presented the faster increase on biomass (length and weight) along the second week with treatments T3, T5, T6, and T10 .

Palavras-chave : biomass; magnetic strength; dormant seeds.

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