Acceleration of germination of tomato seed by applying AC electric and magnetic fields

Journal of Electrostatics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 103-114

  Moon, Jae Duk ^a   Chung, Hwa Sook ^a  

^a Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Electric field exposure; Magnetic field exposure; Seed germination

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FLUX;

GERMINATION;

SEED;

EID: 0033898679     PISSN: 03043886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3886(99)00054-6     Document Type: Article

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