Abstract
This study focuses on the influence of pre-planting irradiation on the development, health, and yield of seed potatoes infected with Rhizoctonia solani. The research was prompted by the need to ensure crop security and sustainability in the modern-day environment, which calls into question the future sufficiency of crop yields. Considering that the focus has shifted to non-chemical methods of crop treatment at all plant development stages in response to more stringent regulations governing potato production, it is particularly important to refine physics-based methods to suppress fungal diseases caused by Rhizoctonia solani. Irradiation of tubers with 20–150 Gy inhibited the potato development phases and the doses exceeding 150 Gy completely suppressed the potato sprouting. Doses ranging from 20 Gy to 100 Gy decreased the quantity of large tubers by 10–20% on average while the number of medium and small tubers increased by 5–15% and 3–10%, respectively. Irradiation of seed potatoes also decreased the sclerotia and non-sclerotia forms of diseases caused by Rhizoctonia solani in the harvested tubers. It was found that 1 MeV electron irradiation with doses ranging from 20 Gy to 30 Gy is the most efficient for the pre-planting treatment of seed potatoes since the penetration of low-energy accelerated electrons into the upper layers of potato tubers ensures the suppression of diseases caused by Rhizoctonia solani by at least 10% from the value of non-irradiated samples and prevents the reduction of total yield allowing for a maximum of 25% loss.
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Claims 9
Claim · model-written summary
Irradiation at 20–150 Gy inhibited potato development phases.
- Taxon
- Potato
Solanum tuberosumt0 - Treatment
- Irradiation of tubers with 20–150 Gye0
- Outcome
- potato development phasese0
- Direction
- inhibitede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Irradiation of tubers with 20–150 Gy inhibited the potato development phases”
t0“Potato”
Claim · model-written summary
Doses above 150 Gy completely suppressed potato sprouting.
- Taxon
- PotatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- doses exceeding 150 Gye0
- Outcome
- potato sproutinge0
- Direction
- suppressede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the doses exceeding 150 Gy completely suppressed the potato sprouting”
t0“Potato”
Claim · model-written summary
Irradiation at 20–100 Gy reduced large tuber quantity by 10–20%.
- Taxon
- PotatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- Doses ranging from 20 Gy to 100 Gye0
- Outcome
- quantity of large tuberse0
- Direction
- decreasede0
- Value
- 10–20%e0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Doses ranging from 20 Gy to 100 Gy decreased the quantity of large tubers by 10–20% on average”
t0“Potato”
Claim · model-written summary
Irradiation at 20–100 Gy increased medium tuber number by 5–15%.
- Taxon
- PotatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- Doses ranging from 20 Gy to 100 Gye0
- Outcome
- number of mediume0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 5–15%e0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Doses ranging from 20 Gy to 100 Gy decreased the quantity of large tubers by 10–20% on average while the number of medium and small tubers increased by 5–15% and 3–10%, respectively.”
t0“Potato”
Claim · model-written summary
Irradiation at 20–100 Gy increased small tuber number by 3–10%.
- Taxon
- PotatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- Doses ranging from 20 Gy to 100 Gye0
- Outcome
- small tuberse0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 3–10%e0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Doses ranging from 20 Gy to 100 Gy decreased the quantity of large tubers by 10–20% on average while the number of medium and small tubers increased by 5–15% and 3–10%, respectively.”
t0“Potato”
Claim · model-written summary
Seed potato irradiation reduced sclerotia and non-sclerotia Rhizoctonia disease forms in harvested tubers.
- Taxon
- PotatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- Irradiation of seed potatoese0
- Interactor
- Rhizoctonia solani
Rhizoctonia solanie0pathogen - Outcome
- sclerotia and non-sclerotia forms of diseases caused by Rhizoctonia solanie0
- Direction
- decreasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Irradiation of seed potatoes also decreased the sclerotia and non-sclerotia forms of diseases caused by Rhizoctonia solani in the harvested tubers.”
t0“Potato”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors identify 1 MeV irradiation at 20–30 Gy as the most efficient pre-planting seed potato treatment.
- Taxon
- PotatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- 1 MeV electron irradiation with doses ranging from 20 Gy to 30 Gye0
- Outcome
- most efficient for the pre-planting treatment of seed potatoese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“1 MeV electron irradiation with doses ranging from 20 Gy to 30 Gy is the most efficient for the pre-planting treatment of seed potatoes”
t0“Potato”
Claim · model-written summary
Low-energy electron penetration suppressed Rhizoctonia disease at least 10% relative to non-irradiated samples.
- Taxon
- PotatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- low-energy accelerated electronse0
- Interactor
- Rhizoctonia solaniRhizoctonia solanie0pathogen
- Outcome
- diseases caused by Rhizoctonia solanie0
- Direction
- suppressione0
- Value
- at least 10%e0
- Comparator
- non-irradiated samplese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“penetration of low-energy accelerated electrons into the upper layers of potato tubers ensures the suppression of diseases caused by Rhizoctonia solani by at least 10% from the value of non-irradiated samples”
t0“Potato”
Claim · model-written summary
The selected irradiation treatment prevented total-yield reduction while allowing up to 25% loss.
- Taxon
- PotatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- 1 MeV electron irradiation with doses ranging from 20 Gy to 30 Gye1
- Outcome
- total yielde0
- Direction
- prevents the reductione0
- Value
- 25% losse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“prevents the reduction of total yield allowing for a maximum of 25% loss”
e1“1 MeV electron irradiation with doses ranging from 20 Gy to 30 Gy”
t0“Potato”
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