Advanced lighting technology in controlled environment agriculture. (February 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pocock, T
• Is Part Of: Lighting research & technology. Volume 48:Number 1(2016)
• Page Start: 83
• Page End: 94
• Publication Date: 2016-02
• Subjects: Lighting -- Periodicals; 621.32
• DOI: 10.1177/1477153515622681
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1477-1535

Abstract

There is a recent awareness of the importance of plants in our everyday lives. Light is a requirement for plants and serves two important roles. It provides energy for growth and provides information that elicits plant responses including, among others, plant shape, pigmentation, nutritional content and resistance to stress. Light is paradoxical to plants, it is a requirement however, in excess it is damaging. Plants sense and interpret light through many families of photoreceptors and through the energy state of the photosynthetic apparatus. Light emitting diodes (LEDs) are quickly replacing traditional light sources for human applications, and currently there is effort being put into tailoring these technology platforms for the plant community. Potential plant sensing pathways and the spectral effects on pigmentation and photochemistry in red lettuce are described.