Light-quality manipulation to control plant growth and photomorphogenesis in greenhouse horticulture: The state of the art and the opportunities of modern LED …

R Paradiso, S Proietti - Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, 2022 - Springer
Light quantity (intensity and photoperiod) and quality (spectral composition) affect plant
growth and physiology and interact with other environmental parameters and cultivation …

Pampered inside, pestered outside? Differences and similarities between plants growing in controlled conditions and in the field

H Poorter, F Fiorani, R Pieruschka… - New …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Plant biologists often grow plants in growth chambers or glasshouses with the ultimate aim
to understand or improve plant performance in the field. What is often overlooked is how …

Blue light added with red LEDs enhance growth characteristics, pigments content, and antioxidant capacity in lettuce, spinach, kale, basil, and sweet pepper in a …

MT Naznin, M Lefsrud, V Gravel, MOK Azad - Plants, 2019 - mdpi.com
The aim of this study was to investigate the different combinations of red (R) and blue (B)
light emitting diode (LEDs') lighting effects on growth, pigment content, and antioxidant …

Seeing the lights for leafy greens in indoor vertical farming

CE Wong, ZWN Teo, L Shen, H Yu - Trends in Food Science & Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Agricultural production in controlled indoor farming offers a reliable alternative
to food and nutrition supply for densely populated cities and contributes to addressing the …

[HTML][HTML] Plasticity of photosynthetic processes and the accumulation of secondary metabolites in plants in response to monochromatic light environments: A review

M Landi, M Zivcak, O Sytar, M Brestic… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2020 - Elsevier
Light spectra significantly influence plant metabolism, growth and development. Here, we
review the effects of monochromatic blue, red and green light compared to those of …

Urban vegetable for food security in cities. A review

C Eigenbrod, N Gruda - Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2015 - Springer
Global food production faces great challenges in the future. With a future world population of
9.6 billion by 2050, rising urbanization, decreasing arable land, and weather extremes due …

Leaf Morphology, Photosynthetic Performance, Chlorophyll Fluorescence, Stomatal Development of Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) Exposed to Different Ratios of Red …

J Wang, W Lu, Y Tong, Q Yang - Frontiers in plant science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Red and blue light are both vital factors for plant growth and development. We examined
how different ratios of red light to blue light (R/B) provided by light-emitting diodes affected …

Physiological responses of cucumber seedlings under different blue and red photon flux ratios using LEDs

R Hernández, C Kubota - Environmental and experimental botany, 2016 - Elsevier
Light emitting diodes (LEDs) are frequently regarded as a new light source for the
production of horticultural crops under closed-type conditions. However, before use of LEDs …

Unraveling the role of red: blue LED lights on resource use efficiency and nutritional properties of indoor grown sweet basil

G Pennisi, S Blasioli, A Cellini, L Maia… - Frontiers in plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Indoor plant cultivation can result in significantly improved resource use efficiency (surface,
water, and nutrients) as compared to traditional growing systems, but illumination costs are …

Don't ignore the green light: exploring diverse roles in plant processes

HL Smith, L McAusland… - Journal of experimental …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The pleasant green appearance of plants, caused by their reflectance of wavelengths in the
500–600 nm range, might give the impression that green light is of minor importance in …