Soybean (Glycine max) germination response to static magnetic field treatment
Sai Tharuna Sree Gajula Lakshmipathi, Katarzyna Niemczyk, Izabela Michalak, Sylwia Lewandowska · 2026
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Description
Gajula Lakshmipathi and co-authors test a chemical-free way to wake up soybean seeds: brief exposure to a static magnetic field before sowing. Magnetically primed seeds have been reported to sprout faster and grow stronger, but results vary by variety. Their 2026 experiment treated seeds of four cultivars at two field strengths for either three or twelve minutes, then measured germination speed, seedling growth, and a combined seed vigour index.
Short exposures worked best everywhere: three minutes beat twelve minutes across all four varieties. The strongest field for three minutes lifted vigour dramatically in the weaker starting varieties, with gains of roughly three quarters over untreated seed in two of them on the reported index. Abelina, already vigorous, posted the highest absolute scores under both field strengths at three minutes. The authors propose the three-minute strong-field recipe as a cheap, sustainable priming step.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sai Tharuna Sree Gajula Lakshmipathi, Katarzyna Niemczyk, Izabela Michalak, Sylwia Lewandowska |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 58 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |