Cold Atmospheric Plasma (CAP) Treatment of In Vitro Cultivated Plum Plantlets—A Possible Way to Improve Growth and Inactivate Plum Pox Virus (PPV)

• Published in: Processes Vol. 12; no. 7; p. 1387
• Main Authors: Nacheva, Lilyana, Milusheva, Snezhana, Marinova, Plamena, Dimitrova, Nataliya, Benova, Evgenia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.07.2024
• Subjects: Acclimatization; Argon plasma; Cultivation; Deactivation; Decontamination; Electrons; Flowers & plants; Gas flow; Leaves; Medical treatment; Plant virus diseases; Plant viruses; Plantlets; Plants (botany); Plasma; Plum pox; Polymerase chain reaction; Reverse transcription; Signs and symptoms; Temperature; Trees; Viruses

Plasma technology, relatively new in the fields of biomedicine, agriculture, and ecology, is the subject of intensive research as a prospective means of decontamination of various microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, and fungi). The objectives of the present study were to follow the effect of cold atm...