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Increased Growth and Germination Success in Plants following Hydrogen Sulfide Administration
This study presents a novel way of enhancing plant growth through the use of a non-petroleum based product. We report here that exposing either roots or seeds of multicellular plants to extremely low concentrations of dissolved hydrogen sulfide at any stage of life causes statistically significant i...
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2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3629089/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23614010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0062048 |
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author | Dooley, Frederick D. Nair, Suven P. Ward, Peter D. |
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description | This study presents a novel way of enhancing plant growth through the use of a non-petroleum based product. We report here that exposing either roots or seeds of multicellular plants to extremely low concentrations of dissolved hydrogen sulfide at any stage of life causes statistically significant increases in biomass including higher fruit yield. Individual cells in treated plants were smaller (∼13%) than those of controls. Germination success and seedling size increased in, bean, corn, wheat, and pea seeds while time to germination decreases. These findings indicated an important role of H(2)S as a signaling molecule that can increase the growth rate of all species yet tested. The increased crop yields reported here has the potential to effect the world's agricultural output. |
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spelling | pubmed-36290892013-04-23 Increased Growth and Germination Success in Plants following Hydrogen Sulfide Administration Dooley, Frederick D. Nair, Suven P. Ward, Peter D. PLoS One Research Article This study presents a novel way of enhancing plant growth through the use of a non-petroleum based product. We report here that exposing either roots or seeds of multicellular plants to extremely low concentrations of dissolved hydrogen sulfide at any stage of life causes statistically significant increases in biomass including higher fruit yield. Individual cells in treated plants were smaller (∼13%) than those of controls. Germination success and seedling size increased in, bean, corn, wheat, and pea seeds while time to germination decreases. These findings indicated an important role of H(2)S as a signaling molecule that can increase the growth rate of all species yet tested. The increased crop yields reported here has the potential to effect the world's agricultural output. Public Library of Science 2013-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC3629089/ /pubmed/23614010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0062048 Text en © 2013 Dooley et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Dooley, Frederick D. Nair, Suven P. Ward, Peter D. Increased Growth and Germination Success in Plants following Hydrogen Sulfide Administration |
title | Increased Growth and Germination Success in Plants following Hydrogen Sulfide Administration |
title_full | Increased Growth and Germination Success in Plants following Hydrogen Sulfide Administration |
title_fullStr | Increased Growth and Germination Success in Plants following Hydrogen Sulfide Administration |
title_full_unstemmed | Increased Growth and Germination Success in Plants following Hydrogen Sulfide Administration |
title_short | Increased Growth and Germination Success in Plants following Hydrogen Sulfide Administration |
title_sort | increased growth and germination success in plants following hydrogen sulfide administration |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3629089/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23614010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0062048 |
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