Plasma agriculture is the application of plasma technology — including non-thermal plasma and plasma-treated water — to agricultural practice. It is the application framing implied by the agriculture classification of the source dossier recorded at Plasma-Activated Water: A source Dossier (Provisional Record).
Scope
The term is used broadly to cover:
- Seed treatment — exposing seeds to plasma or plasma-treated water before sowing.
- Irrigation with treated water — applying Plasma-Activated Water (PAW) to crops or growing media.
- Crop protection — using plasma-derived reactive chemistry against pathogens on plants or in water.
The reactive chemistry underlying these uses is described on Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species (RONS), and the generating discharge on Non-Thermal Plasma (Cold Atmospheric Plasma).
Evidence status
This page records the existence of the application area. It does not report trial results, crop species, dosages, or outcomes, because the source dossier that prompted this page was captured incompletely and supplies no such data. Claims of agricultural benefit found in archive material should be attributed to their source rather than treated as established findings.
Related
- Plasma-Activated Water (PAW) — the treated water used in these applications.
- Non-Thermal Plasma (Cold Atmospheric Plasma) — the discharge technology.
- agriculture, water — broad subject guides.
Source notes & attribution
- https://rexresearch.com/PlasmaActivatedWater/PlasmaActivatedWater.html