Sinusoidal LED light recipes can improve rocket edible biomass and reduce electricity costs in indoor growth environments.

ABSTRACT: Accumulation of edible biomass by crop plants relies on maintenance of a high photosynthetic rates across the photoperiod, with assimilation rate (A) generally responding to increasing light intensity in a hyperbolic fashion. In natural environments light fluctuates greatly over the course of the day, however in Controlled Environmental Agricultural (CEA) systems, light intensity can be supplemented or precisely controlled using LEDs to create near optimum conditions. In such indoor growth environments light is often delivered as a square wave and recommendations to horticulturalists are given in the form of Daily Light Integrals (DLI). However, this does not take into account the slow photosynthetic induction at the start of the photoperiod and the decline of A towards the e

SUBMITTER: Stamford JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11503027 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature