Vegetable Research and Development Station Buzau – Research, innovation, and passion for Romanian vegetable cultivation!

PNCDI II 52-136: Research on the use of acoustic fields and laser radiation for the environmentally sound, non-stressful stimulation of plants

  • Implementation period: 2008-2011

Project objectives

Screening of the interaction of laser radiation and acoustic fields with plants;

Study of the morphological and biochemical effects induced by treatment based on simultaneously modulated acoustic fields and laser radiation on plant growth in the early stages of development, and of the changes induced at mature plant level.

Results

  • Construction of an experimental model of a device for treating plants using acoustic fields and laser radiation;
  • Development of a specific irradiation protocol for the following varieties: sweet pepper – Buzau 10, aubergine – Drăgaica, petunia – Cascade Alb, marigold – Nanuk, carnation – Chabaud;
  • Development of a non-stressful and non-polluting irradiation methodology using continuous coherent laser light, subsequently modulated in synchrony with audio fields, applied to 2 vegetable species of the Solanaceae family and to 3 ornamental species;
  • Registration of a cherry-type tomato variety (Coralina) and of a marigold variety (Nanuk).
Project coordinator
University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest (USAMV Bucharest)
Budget
  • 440,000 LEI