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Garlic is popular, versatile, and tasty. The Allium crop is beloved worldwide as a food, spice and herbal remedy, but is also widely researched and used in disciplines ranging from medicine to farming. However, what if the growth and yield of garlic could be influenced simply by physically treating its cloves? This is the principle behind plasma agriculture, an emerging field of science which introduces physical concepts to agricultural practice. Here, seeds or other plant materials are briefly exposed to gas plasma, which alters the surface properties, stimulates the growth and strengthens the plant.This book takes an in-depth look at the physics of low-pressure oxygen plasma and shows how the plasma reactive species affect the treated surface. It uses garlic as a model organism to explain the main principles underlying plasma agriculture. The most immediate effects of plasma on the garlic clove are physico-chemical, followed by biological responses that range from sprout and root growth stimulation to yield increase.As it connects results of plasma characterization to garlic plant responses, this book will appeal to plasma scientists, as well as those interested in experimental botany and agriculture. It provides insights into the current understanding of plasma agriculture and encourages further steps in exploring the effects and benefits of this unique approach.

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Matej Holc received his MPharm from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and his PhD in Ecotechnologies from the Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Slovenia. He was first employed in the pharmaceutical industry as a Quality Assurance Manager, before beginning his research on low-pressure plasma treatments and surface analyses of various materials, primarily biological samples, paper, and polymers in 2015.Ita Junkar is a chemical engineer and Senior Researcher at the Department of Surface Engineering at the Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia. Her research focuses on biomaterials and modification of surfaces by highly reactive gaseous plasma. In recent years, she has also developed novel methods for application of gaseous plasma in agriculture.Professor Miran Mozetic serves as the Head of the Department of Surface Engineering at the Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia. He is the leader of a research group working on the generation and characterization of highly reactive gaseous plasma, and he is the author of over 300 scientific papers.

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