Health assessment of rice cultivated and harvested from plasma-irradiated seeds
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This study provides the health effects assessment of rice cultivated from plasma-irradiated seeds. The rice ( Oryza sativa L. ) cultivated from seeds with plasma irradiation showed a growth improvement (slope-ratios of with plasma to without plasma were 1.066, 1.042, and 1.255 for tiller, and earing, and ripening periods, respectively) and an 4% increase in yield. The cultivated rice was used for repeated oral administrations to mice for 4-week period. Distilled water and rice cultivated from seeds without plasma irradiation were also used as control. The weights of the lung, kidney, liver, and spleen, with corresponding average values of 0.22 g, 0.72 g, 2.1 g, and 0.17 g for w/ plasma group and 0.22 g, 0.68 g, 2.16 g, and 0.14 g for w/o plasma group, respectively, showing no effect due to the administration of rice cultivated from plasma-irradiated seeds. Nutritional status, liver function, kidney function, and lipid, neutral fat profiles, and glucose metabolism have no significant difference between with and without plasma groups. These results show no obvious subacute effects were observed on rice grains cultivated and harvested from the mother plant that experienced growth improvement by plasma irradiation. This study provides a new finding that there is no apparent adverse health effect on the grains harvested from the plasma-irradiated seeds.
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A recent health assessment study using rice cultivated and harvested from cold plasma-irradiated seeds shows no apparent adverse health effect on the grains harvested from the plasma-irradiated seeds.
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- Authors
- Okumura, T., Tanaka, H., Nakao, T., Anan, T., Arita, R., Shiraki, M., Shiraki, K., Miyabe, T., Yamashita, D., Matsuo, K., Attri, P., Kamataki, K., Yamashita, N., Itagaki, N., Shiratani, M., Hosoda, S., Tanaka, A., Ishibashi, Y., & Koga, K.
- Affiliations
- Kyushu University (JP)
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JP)
- Corresponding author
- Koga, Kazunori
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- Scientific Reports
- Published
- 2023-10-14
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- 13
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 17450-17450
- ISSN
- 2045-2322 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC10576742
- OpenAlex
- W4387649858
- Cited by
- 16
- References
- 38
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- 2026: 6 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 5
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- 2.64
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP20H01893)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan (JP19K14700)
- JSPS Core-to-Core Program (JPJSCCA2019002)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Effects of Radiation Exposure
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Plasma Applications and Diagnostics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Physiology › Magnetic and Electromagnetic Effects
- Keywords
- plasma irradiation, rice, seed irradiation, health effects assessment, subacute toxicity, rice yield, tillering, earing, organ weight, liver function, renal function, lipid profile, glucose metabolism, nutritional status, food safety
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Plasma, Oryza, Seeds, Mice
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