Research on medicinal plants is essential for their conservation, propagation, resistance to environmental stress, and domestication. The use of organic nutrition has been demonstrated to improve soil fertility and plant quality. It is also important to study the effects of the Basic Cation Saturation Ratio (BCSR) approach, which is a topic where there is currently controversy and limited scientific information. Evaluating the growth and yields of Agastache mexicana subsp. mexicana (Amm) in different environments is crucial for developing effective propagation and domestication strategies. This includes examining warm and subhumid environments with rain in summer in comparison to mild environments with summer rain. Significant differences were observed in the effects of cold, waterlogging, and heat stresses on the plant’s biomass yield and the morphometric-quantitative modeling by means of isolines. The biomass yield was 56% higher in environment one compared to environment two, 19% higher in environment one with organic nutrition, and 48% higher in environment two with organic nutrition compared to using only BCSR nutrition. In the second harvesting cycle, the plants in environment one did not survive, while the plants in environment two managed to survive without needing additional nutrition. Statistical and mathematical analyses provided information about the population or sample. Additionally, further analysis using isolines as a new approach revealed new insights into understanding phenology and growth issues.
The combined effect on the variation of the in-situ deposition temperature and the variation of the applied power on the deposition rate (DR), gap energy (Eg), and resistivity (ρ) in barium strontium titanate thin films, deposited into RF (radio frequency)–magnetron cosputtering equipment, are presented in this research. The simultaneous action of two magnetrons (BaTiO3 and SrTiO3) is explained using the first and second derivative of Boltzmann’s sigmoidal equation. This found that a deposition gradient is a very novel analysis. Using the color-code lines built through MATLAB® and analyzing the trend information, taking into account the influence of the calculated “x” parameter, by means of the Boltzmann’s sigmoidal equation fit, we propose a method to set up an RF–magnetron cosputtering system to predict the DR(x,T), Eg(x,T), and ρ(x,T) values of BaxSr1−xTiO3 solid solutions with 0 ≤ x ≤ 1 for amorphous and crystalline phases. This method can be a versatile tool to optimize the deposition process with, or without, in situ deposition temperature.
17 May 2022 in Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics