LAPSE:2022.0010
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LAPSE:2022.0010
Chitosan Plasma Chemical Processing in Beam-Plasma Reactors as a Way of Environmentally Friendly Phytostimulants Production
Tatiana Vasilieva, Oscar Goñi, Patrick Quille, Shane O’Connell, Dmitry Kosyakov, Semen Shestakov, Nikolay Ul’yanovskii, Michael Vasiliev
January 24, 2022
A novel technique of phytoactive water-soluble chitooligosaccharide (COS) production in low-temperature plasma is described. Design, operation, and control of plasma chemical reactors used to produce COS from the powder of high molecular weight chitosan are presented. The electron beam plasma is strongly non-equilibrium and chemically active; plasma was excited by injecting the scanning electron beam into reaction volume filled with aerosol, containing oxygen and chitosan powder. Plasma chemical processes, responsible for the raw chitosan destruction and techniques of these processes to obtain control of products of optimal molecular weight, are considered. COS, in amounts sufficient for laboratory tests with some plants, were produced. Tests showed that the addition of COS into the liquid growing medium at 0.25 and 1 mg/mL stimulates root growth in Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings (Col-0) by up to 40%, with respect to control plants. Foliar application of these COS formulations at 0.25 mg/mL on tomato plants (cv. Micro-Tom) also resulted in increases between 11.9% and 36% in two important plant productivity indicators (flower and fruit numbers) compared to the control plants. Being environmentally friendly (and resource saving) the electron beam plasma technology of renewable natural biopolymer processing can be considered as a competitive way to produce biostimulants for commercial agriculture.
Keywords
chitooligosaccharides, electron-beam plasma, plant biostimulants, plasma chemical processing
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Vasilieva T, Goñi O, Quille P, O’Connell S, Kosyakov D, Shestakov S, Ul’yanovskii N, Vasiliev M. Chitosan Plasma Chemical Processing in Beam-Plasma Reactors as a Way of Environmentally Friendly Phytostimulants Production. (2022). LAPSE:2022.0010
Author Affiliations
Vasilieva T: Department of General Chemistry, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, 141700 Moscow, Russia
Goñi O: Plant Biostimulant Group, Shannon Applied Biotechnology Centre, Institute of Technology Tralee, Tralee, Co. Kerry V92 CX88, Ireland
Quille P: Plant Biostimulant Group, Shannon Applied Biotechnology Centre, Institute of Technology Tralee, Tralee, Co. Kerry V92 CX88, Ireland
O’Connell S: Plant Biostimulant Group, Shannon Applied Biotechnology Centre, Institute of Technology Tralee, Tralee, Co. Kerry V92 CX88, Ireland
Kosyakov D: Core Facility Center “Arktika”, Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Severnaya Dvina Emb., 17, 163002 Arkhangelsk, Russia [ORCID]
Shestakov S: Core Facility Center “Arktika”, Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Severnaya Dvina Emb., 17, 163002 Arkhangelsk, Russia
Ul’yanovskii N: Core Facility Center “Arktika”, Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Severnaya Dvina Emb., 17, 163002 Arkhangelsk, Russia
Vasiliev M: Aerospace Research Department, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, 141700 Moscow, Russia
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Processes
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9
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1
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pr9010103
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2021
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2021-01-06
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2227-9717
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