THE STIMULATION OF ORNAMENTAL PLANTS’ METABOLISM through treatment of seeds by low-temperature plasma and the electromagnetic field

Abstract

The effect of pre-sowing plasma and radio wave treatments of seeds of medicinal and ornamental plants on the content of free radicals in dry seeds and on the accumulation of secondary metabolites (phenolic compounds, flavonoids and ascorbic acid) in medicinal plant material is investigated.

Keywords

• seeds of plants
• secondary metabolites
• low-temperature gas-discharge plasma
• electromagnetic field