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Light-emitting Diode Light Transmission through Leaf Tissue of Seven Different Crops

Massa G, Graham T, Haire T, Flemming C, Newsham G, Wheeler R

HortScience · 2015

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Summary

Significant advances in controlled-environment (CE) plant production lighting have been made in recent years, driven by rapid improvements in light-emitting diode (LED) technologies. Aside from energy efficiency gains, LEDs offer the ability to customize the spectrum delivered to a crop, which may have untold benefits for growers and researchers alike. Understanding how these specific wavebands are attenuated by plant tissue is important if lighting engineers are to fully optimize systems for CE plant production. In this study, seven different greenhouse and field crops (radish, Raphanus sativus ‘Cherry Bomb II’; red romaine lettuce, Lactuca sativa ‘Outredgeous’, green leaf lettuce, Lactuca sativa ‘Waldmann’s Green’; pepper, Capsicum annuum ‘Fruit Basket’; soybean, Glycine max ’Hoyt’; cucu

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.21273/hortsci.50.3.501
Catalogue ID
BImvhafhqn-odynhf
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