Improving vegetable quality in controlled environments

Y Rouphael, MC Kyriacou, SA Petropoulos… - Scientia …, 2018 - Elsevier
During the last decades, food security has become a vital global concern driven by
projections of population increase and exacerbated by the impending pressure of climate …

Indoor vegetable production: An alternative approach to increasing cultivation

PAY Ampim, E Obeng, E Olvera-Gonzalez - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
As the world's population is increasing exponentially, human diets have changed to less
healthy foods resulting in detrimental health complications. Increasing vegetable intake by …

Solar radiation distribution inside a greenhouse with south-oriented photovoltaic roofs and effects on crop productivity

M Cossu, L Murgia, L Ledda, PA Deligios, A Sirigu… - Applied Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
This study assessed the climate conditions inside a greenhouse in which 50% of the roof
area was replaced with photovoltaic (PV) modules, describing the solar radiation distribution …

Effect of coloured shade‐nets on plant leaf parameters and tomato fruit quality

ZS Ilić, L Milenković, L Šunić… - … of the Science of Food and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND The concept of photo‐selective netting using commercial cultivation
practices was studied in a tomato (Solanum lycopersicum 'Vedetta') summer cultivation in …

[HTML][HTML] Silicon application mitigated the adverse effects of salt stress and deficit irrigation on drip-irrigated greenhouse tomato

Z Dou, H Feng, H Zhang, AE Abdelghany… - Agricultural Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is an important vegetable crop around the world, and
water scarcity and soil salinization are two major unfavorable factors limiting the fruit yield …

Watering Volume and Growing Design's Effect on the Productivity and Quality of Cherry Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum cerasiformae) Cultivar Ruby

F Ahmad, K Kusumiyati, MA Soleh, MR Khan… - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
It is intriguing to understand the influence of the watering volume and growing design on the
growth, yield, and quality of cherry tomatoes. This study sought to identify the most effective …

Dynamics of shaded areas in a typical-shaped solar greenhouse and their effects on tomato growth—A case study in winter

R Zhang, Y Liu, D Zhu, X Zhang, L Lu, F Gao… - Scientia …, 2023 - Elsevier
The side walls and fixed insulation quilt of a solar greenhouse helped reduce heat loss from
the room at night but produced shadows on the greenhouse floor during the day, affecting …

Metabolic profiles of six African cultivars of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) highlight bottlenecks of root yield

T Obata, PAW Klemens, L Rosado‐Souza… - The Plant …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Cassava is an important staple crop in sub‐Saharan Africa, due to its high productivity even
on nutrient poor soils. The metabolic characteristics underlying this high productivity are …

Impact of drying techniques, seasonal variation and organic growing on flavor compounds profiles in two Italian tomato varieties

D Paolo, G Bianchi, CF Morelli, G Speranza… - Food chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
The industrial transformation of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) produces processed
foods, such as dried tomatoes. In this study two varieties (SaAb and PerBruzzo), grown in …

Biochemical parameters in tomato fruits from different cultivars as functional foods for agricultural, industrial, and pharmaceutical uses

P Viskelis, A Radzevicius, D Urbonaviciene… - Plants for the …, 2015 - books.google.com
Tomato and tomato based products are an important agricultural production worldwide.
More than 80% of grown tomatoes in the worldwide are processing in the products such as …