Claim · model-written summary
Microwave exposure increased germination of 11 year old radish seeds versus unirradiated seeds.
- Taxon
- radish
Raphanus sativuse0 - Material
- 11 year-old radish seedse0
- Treatment
- 9.3 GHz microwavese0
- Outcome
- germinatione0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- non-irradiated seedse0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“It was established that 11 year-old radish seeds exposed to 9.3 GHz microwaves had higher germination as compared with non-irradiated seeds.”
Title
Audrius Radzevičius; Sandra Sakalauskienė; Mindaugas Dagys; et al. Zemdirbyste-Agriculture 2013. doi:10.13080/z-a.2013.100.023
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