How the distribution of photon delivery impacts crops in indoor plant environments: a review

R Warner, BS Wu, S MacPherson, M Lefsrud - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Indoor plant production allows for increased controllability over plant growth, particularly
with the employment of specific lighting regimes. This article reviews research investigating …

Leaf-movement-based growth prediction model using optical flow analysis and machine learning in plant factory

S Nagano, S Moriyuki, K Wakamori, H Mineno… - Frontiers in plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Productivity stabilization is a critical issue facing plant factories. As such, researchers have
been investigating growth prediction with the overall goal of improving productivity. The …

Circadian oscillation of the lettuce transcriptome under constant light and light–dark conditions

T Higashi, K Aoki, AJ Nagano, MN Honjo… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Although, the circadian clock is a universal biological system in plants and it orchestrates
important role of plant production such as photosynthesis, floral induction and growth, there …

High-Throughput Growth Prediction for Lactuca sativa L. Seedlings Using Chlorophyll Fluorescence in a Plant Factory with Artificial Lighting

S Moriyuki, H Fukuda - Frontiers in plant science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Poorly grown plants that result from differences in individuals lead to large profit losses for
plant factories that use large electric power sources for cultivation. Thus, identifying and …

Detection of diurnal variation of tomato transcriptome through the molecular timetable method in a sunlight-type plant factory

T Higashi, Y Tanigaki, K Takayama… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The timing of measurement during plant growth is important because many genes are
expressed periodically and orchestrate physiological events. Their periodicity is generated …

Evaluation of growth under non-24 h period lighting conditions in Lactuca sativa L.

T HIGASHI, S NISHIKAWA, N OKAMURA… - … Control in Biology, 2015 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Circadian rhythms are synchronized by the external environment and are responsible for
regulating many of physiological processes in organisms. In plants, a key component in the …

Application of time lags between light and temperature cycles for growth control based on the circadian clock of Lactuca sativa L. seedlings

K Masuda, T Yamada, Y Kagawa… - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The circadian clock plays an important role in agriculture, especially in highly controlled
environments, such as plant factories. However, multiple environmental factors have an …

Optimization of light-dark cycles of Lactuca sativa L. in plant factory

C URAIRI, H SHIMIZU, H NAKASHIMA… - … Control in Biology, 2017 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Several studies have reported that the circadian rhythm of leaf lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) is
approximately 24 h and that the fresh weight of Greenwave, a cultivar of leaf lettuce, is larger …

Spatiotemporal analysis of localized circadian arrhythmias in plant roots

N Seki, Y Tanigaki, A Yoshida… - Environmental Control in …, 2018 - jstage.jst.go.jp
The circadian system in plants is characterized by substantial cellular oscillations over an
approximately 24-h period. Interactions between cellular oscillators trigger phase resets …

Detection and Utilization of Biological Rhythms in Plant Factories

H Fukuda, Y Tanigaki, S Moriyuki - Smart Plant Factory: The Next …, 2018 - Springer
Biological rhythms with a period of about 24 h, called “circadian rhythms,” are generated by
the expressions of clock genes. In plants, circadian rhythms increase the growth rate through …