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de Faria RQ, dos Santos ARP, Batista TB, Gariepy Y, da Silva EAA, Sartori MMP, Raghavan V. The Effect of Magneto-Priming on the Physiological Quality of Soybean Seeds. Plants (Basel) 2023; 12:1477. [PMID: 37050103 PMCID: PMC10096772 DOI: 10.3390/plants12071477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2023] [Revised: 03/16/2023] [Accepted: 03/20/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Microwaves have been applied to the drying of seeds of several species due to their maintenance of the quality of the seeds and reduction of time and costs. However, few is known about the effect of microwaves on the increase of the physiological quality of soybean seeds and especially their effects on longevity. Therefore, the use of microwaves as magneto-priming in soybean seeds was the object of study in this work. For this purpose, two soybean cultivars were selected and submitted to the ultra-high frequency (UHF) microwave exposure of 2.45 GHz, in the wavelength of 11 cm, and power of 0.2 W/g, for 15 min. The results showed that this condition of exposure to the microwave brought benefits in both cultivars after treatment. Incremental improvements were observed in the germinability indexes, the seedling length, the water absorption by the seeds, the fresh mass, dry mass, and longevity. The genes related to seed germination and longevity showed superior expression (HSFA3, HSP21, HSP17.6b, EXP, ABI3) with magneto-priming treatment. The data found ensure the use of the technique as a viable option for pre-treatment as magneto-priming in soybean seeds in order to improve seed quality.
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- Rute Q. de Faria
- Instituto Federal de Educação Ciência e Tecnologia Goiano, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Rod. Geraldo Silva Nascimento, Campus Urutaí, Km-2,5—Zona Rural, Urutaí 75790-000, GO, Brazil
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- Department of Agricultural Engineering, Campus Alegrete, Universidade Federal do Pampa, Av. Tiarajú 810, Alegrete 97546-550, RS, Brazil
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- Department of Production and Plant Breeding, School of Agriculture, Sao Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu. Av. Universitária, n° 3780—Altos do Paraíso, Botucatu 18610-034, SP, Brazil
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- Macdonald Campus, McGill University, 21111, Lakeshore Road, Sainte-Anne-De-Bellevue, QC H9X 3V9, Canada
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- Department of Production and Plant Breeding, School of Agriculture, Sao Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu. Av. Universitária, n° 3780—Altos do Paraíso, Botucatu 18610-034, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Production and Plant Breeding, School of Agriculture, Sao Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu. Av. Universitária, n° 3780—Altos do Paraíso, Botucatu 18610-034, SP, Brazil
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- Macdonald Campus, McGill University, 21111, Lakeshore Road, Sainte-Anne-De-Bellevue, QC H9X 3V9, Canada
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Mshenskaya NS, Grinberg MA, Kalyasova EA, Vodeneev VA, Ilin NV, Slyunyaev NN, Mareev EA, Sinitsyna YV. The Effect of an Extremely Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Field on the Drought Sensitivity of Wheat Plants. Plants (Basel) 2023; 12:826. [PMID: 36840174 PMCID: PMC9963552 DOI: 10.3390/plants12040826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2022] [Revised: 01/24/2023] [Accepted: 02/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Extremely low-frequency magnetic fields are thought to be capable of modulating the resistance of plants to adverse factors, particularly drought. Magnetic fields in this frequency range occur in nature in connection with so-called Schumann resonances, excited by lightning discharges in the Earth-ionosphere cavity. The aim of this work was to identify the influence of a magnetic field with a frequency of 14.3 Hz (which corresponds to the second Schumann harmonic) on the transpiration and photosynthesis of wheat plants under the influence of drought. The activity of photosynthesis processes, the crop water stress index, relative water content and leaf area were determined during drought intensification. At the end of the experiment, on the 12th day of drought, the length, and fresh and dry weight of wheat shoots were measured. The results obtained indicate a protective effect of the magnetic field on plants in unfavorable drought conditions; the magnetic field delayed the development of harmful changes in the transpiration and photosynthesis processes for several days. At the same time, in the absence of the stressor (drought), the effect of the electromagnetic field was not detected, except for a decrease in relative transpiration. In favorable conditions, there were only minimal modifications of the photosynthetic processes and transpiration by the magnetic field.
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- N. S. Mshenskaya
- Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, N.I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
- Institute of Applied Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, 603600 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, N.I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
- Institute of Applied Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, 603600 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, N.I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, N.I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
- Institute of Applied Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, 603600 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, N.I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
- Institute of Applied Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, 603600 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, N.I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
- Institute of Applied Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, 603600 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, N.I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
- Institute of Applied Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, 603600 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, N.I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
- Institute of Applied Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, 603600 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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Agrawal AK, Singh B, Singhai P, Kashyap Y, Shukla M. The white beam station at imaging beamline BL-4, Indus-2. J Synchrotron Radiat 2021; 28:1639-1648. [PMID: 34475311 DOI: 10.1107/s160057752100775x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2021] [Accepted: 07/28/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The high flux density of synchrotron white beam offers several advantages in X-ray imaging such as higher resolution and signal-to-noise ratio in 3D/4D micro-tomography, higher frame rate in real-time imaging of transient phenomena, and higher penetration in thick and dense materials especially at higher energies. However, these advantages come with additional challenges to beamline optics, camera and sample due to increased heat load and radiation damage, and to personal safety due to higher radiation dose and ozone gas hazards. In this work, a white beam imaging facility at imaging beamline BL-4, Indus-2, has been developed, while taking care of various instrumental and personal safety challenges. The facility has been tested to achieve 1.5 µm spatial resolution, increased penetration depth up to 900 µm in steel, and high temporal resolutions of ∼10 ms (region of interest 2048 × 2048 pixels) and 70 µs (256 × 2048 pixels). The facility is being used successfully for X-ray imaging, non-destructive testing and dosimetry experiments.
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- Ashish K Agrawal
- Technical Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400085, India
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- Technical Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400085, India
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- Technical Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400085, India
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- Technical Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400085, India
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- Technical Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400085, India
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Fatima A, Kataria S, Prajapati R, Jain M, Agrawal AK, Singh B, Kashyap Y, Tripathi DK, Singh VP, Gadre R. Magnetopriming effects on arsenic stress-induced morphological and physiological variations in soybean involving synchrotron imaging. Physiol Plant 2021; 173:88-99. [PMID: 32915504 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.13211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2020] [Revised: 08/26/2020] [Accepted: 09/06/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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This study investigates the effect of static magnetic field (SMF) pre-treatment in ameliorating arsenic (As) toxicity in soybean plants in relation to growth, photosynthesis and water transport through leaf venation. Soybean (Glycine max variety JS-9560) seeds pre-treated with SMF (200 mT for 1 h) were grown in four levels of arsenate-polluted soil (As(V); 0, 5, 10 and 50 mg kg-1 ) in order to find out the impact of magnetopriming on plant tolerance against As toxicity. Quantitative image analysis of soybean leaf venation showed a narrowing in the width of midrib with increasing As(V) contamination in non-primed seeds. The morphological variations are also supported by the physiological parameters such as reduction in efficiency of photosystem II, plant performance index, stomatal conductance and photosynthetic rate in the presence of As(V) for non-primed seeds. However, remarkable increase was observed in all the measured parameters by SMF pre-treatment at all the concentrations of As(V) used. Even for the highest concentration of As(V) (50 mg kg-1 soil), SMF pre-treatment caused significant enhancement in plant height (40%), area of third trifoliate leaves (40%), along with increase in width of the midrib (17%) and minor vein (13%), contributing to increase in the water uptake, that resulted in higher primary photochemistry of PSII (12%), performance index (50%), stomatal conductance (57%) and photosynthetic rate (33%) as compared to non-primed ones. Consequently, magnetopriming of dry seeds can be effectively used as pretreatment for reduction of As toxicity in soybean plants.
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- Anis Fatima
- Technical Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai, 400085, India
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- School of Biochemistry, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Khandwa Road, Indore, M.P., 452001, India
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- School of Biochemistry, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Khandwa Road, Indore, M.P., 452001, India
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- School of Biochemistry, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Khandwa Road, Indore, M.P., 452001, India
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- Technical Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai, 400085, India
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- Technical Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai, 400085, India
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- Technical Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai, 400085, India
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- Amity Institute of Organic Ariculture, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, 201313, India
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- Plant Physiology Lab, Department of Botany, C.M.P. Degree College, A Constituent Post Graduate College of University of Allahabad, Prayagraj, 211002, India
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- School of Biochemistry, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Khandwa Road, Indore, M.P., 452001, India
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Sarraf M, Deamici KM, Taimourya H, Islam M, Kataria S, Raipuria RK, Abdi G, Brestic M. Effect of Magnetopriming on Photosynthetic Performance of Plants. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22179353. [PMID: 34502258 PMCID: PMC8431099 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22179353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2021] [Revised: 08/24/2021] [Accepted: 08/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Magnetopriming has emerged as a promising seed-priming method, improving seed vigor, plant performance and productivity under both normal and stressed conditions. Various recent reports have demonstrated that improved photosynthesis can lead to higher biomass accumulation and overall crop yield. The major focus of the present review is magnetopriming-based, improved growth parameters, which ultimately favor increased photosynthetic performance. The plants originating from magnetoprimed seeds showed increased plant height, leaf area, fresh weight, thick midrib and minor veins. Similarly, chlorophyll and carotenoid contents, efficiency of PSII, quantum yield of electron transport, stomatal conductance, and activities of carbonic anhydrase (CA), Rubisco and PEP-carboxylase enzymes are enhanced with magnetopriming of the seeds. In addition, a higher fluorescence yield at the J-I-P phase in polyphasic chlorophyll a fluorescence (OJIP) transient curves was observed in plants originating from magnetoprimed seeds. Here, we have presented an overview of available studies supporting the magnetopriming-based improvement of various parameters determining the photosynthetic performance of crop plants, which consequently increases crop yield. Additionally, we suggest the need for more in-depth molecular analysis in the future to shed light upon hidden regulatory mechanisms involved in magnetopriming-based, improved photosynthetic performance.
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- Mohammad Sarraf
- Department of Horticulture Science, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz 71987-74731, Iran;
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- Department of Horticulture, Horticol Complex of Agadir (CHA), Agronomy and Veterinary Institute Hassan II, Agadir 80000, Morocco;
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- Department of Sustainable Crop Production, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Via Emilia Parmense 84, 29122 Piacenza, Italy;
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- School of Biochemistry, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Khandwa Road, Indore 452001, India
- Correspondence: (S.K.); (M.B.)
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- Department of Biotechnology, Persian Gulf Research Institute, Persian Gulf University, Bushehr 7516913817, Iran;
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra, Tr. A. Hlinku 2, 949 01 Nitra, Slovakia
- Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food, and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamycka 129, 165 00 Prague, Czech Republic
- Correspondence: (S.K.); (M.B.)
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Fatima A, Kataria S, Agrawal AK, Singh B, Kashyap Y, Jain M, Brestic M, Allakhverdiev SI, Rastogi A. Use of Synchrotron Phase-Sensitive Imaging for the Investigation of Magnetopriming and Solar UV-Exclusion Impact on Soybean ( Glycine max) Leaves. Cells 2021; 10:1725. [PMID: 34359895 PMCID: PMC8307725 DOI: 10.3390/cells10071725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2021] [Revised: 07/01/2021] [Accepted: 07/03/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The combined response of exclusion of solar ultraviolet radiation (UV-A+B and UV-B) and static magnetic field (SMF) pre-treatment of 200 mT for 1 h were studied on soybean (Glycine max) leaves using synchrotron imaging. The seeds of soybean with and without SMF pre-treatment were sown in nursery bags kept in iron meshes where UV-A+B (280-400 nm) and UV-B (280-315 nm) from solar radiation were filtered through a polyester filters. Two controls were planned, one with polythene filter controls (FC)- which allows all the UV (280-400 nm); the other control had no filter used (open control-OC). Midrib regions of the intact third trifoliate leaves were imaged using the phase-contrast imaging technique at BL-4, Indus-2 synchrotron radiation source. The solar UV exclusion results suggest that ambient UV caused a reduction in leaf growth which ultimately reduced the photosynthesis in soybean seedlings, while SMF treatment caused enhancement of leaf growth along with photosynthesis even under the presence of ambient UV-B stress. The width of midrib and second-order veins, length of the second-order veins, leaf vein density, and the density of third-order veins obtained from the quantitative image analysis showed an enhancement in the leaves of plants that emerged from SMF pre-treated seeds as compared to untreated ones grown in open control and filter control conditions (in the presence of ambient UV stress). SMF pre-treated seeds along with UV-A+B and UV-B exclusion also showed significant enhancements in leaf parameters as compared to the UV excluded untreated leaves. Our results suggested that SMF-pretreatment of seeds diminishes the ambient UV-induced adverse effects on soybean.
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- Anis Fatima
- Technical Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400085, India; (A.K.A.); (B.S.); (Y.K.)
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- School of Biochemistry, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Khandwa Road, Indore 452001, India;
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- Technical Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400085, India; (A.K.A.); (B.S.); (Y.K.)
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- Technical Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400085, India; (A.K.A.); (B.S.); (Y.K.)
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- Technical Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400085, India; (A.K.A.); (B.S.); (Y.K.)
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- School of Biochemistry, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Khandwa Road, Indore 452001, India;
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Slovak University of Agriculture, A. Hlinku 2, 94976 Nitra, Slovakia
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- K.A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Botanicheskaya St. 35, 127276 Moscow, Russia;
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- Laboratory of Bioclimatology, Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Piątkowska 94, 60-649 Poznan, Poland;
- Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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Agrawal AK, Singh B, Kashyap YS, Shukla M, Manjunath BS, Gadkari SC. Gamma-irradiation-induced micro-structural variations in flame-retardant polyurethane foam using synchrotron X-ray micro-tomography. J Synchrotron Radiat 2019; 26:1797-1807. [PMID: 31490172 DOI: 10.1107/s1600577519009792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2018] [Accepted: 07/08/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Flame-retardant polyurethane foams are potential packing materials for the transport casks of highly active nuclear materials for shock absorption and insulation purposes. Exposure of high doses of gamma radiation causes cross-linking and chain sectioning of macromolecules in this polymer foam, which leads to reorganization of their cellular microstructure and thereby variations in physico-mechanical properties. In this study, in-house-developed flame-retardant rigid polyurethane foam samples were exposed to gamma irradiation doses in the 0-20 kGy range and synchrotron radiation X-ray micro-computed tomography (SR-µCT) imaging was employed for the analysis of radiation-induced morphological variations in their cellular microstructure. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of SR-µCT images has revealed significant variations in the average cell size, shape, wall thickness, orientations and spatial anisotropy of the cellular microstructure in polyurethane foam.
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- A K Agrawal
- Technical Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
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- Technical Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
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- Technical Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
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- Technical Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
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- Reactor Technology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
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- Technical Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
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Kataria S, Baghel L, Jain M, Guruprasad K. Magnetopriming regulates antioxidant defense system in soybean against salt stress. Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bcab.2019.101090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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