Effect of Narrowband UV-B Irradiation on the Growth Performance of House Crickets.

ABSTRACT: Indoor co-cultivation systems can answer to the need for sustainable and resilient food production systems. Rearing organisms under light-emitting diodes (LEDs) irradiation provides the possibility to control and shape the emitted light spectra. UV-B-irradiation (280-315 nm) can positively affect the nutritional composition of different plants and other organisms, whereas information on edible insects is scarce. To evaluate the potential effect of the photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) and LED-emitting LEDs on the rearing and nutritional quality of edible insects, house crickets (Acheta domesticus) were reared from the age of 21 days under controlled LED spectra, with an additional UV-B (0.08 W/m²) dose of 1.15 KJm² d^-1 (illuminated over a per

SUBMITTER: Psarianos M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9658061 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature