Improving spinach, radish, and lettuce growth under red light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with blue light supplementation

HortScience

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 380-383

  Yorio, N C ^a   Goins, G D ^a   Kagie, H R ^a   Wheeler, R M ^a   Sager, J C ^a  

^a DYNAMAC CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioregenerative life support systems; Lactuca sativa; Photomorphogenesis; Raphanus sativus; Spectral quality; Spinacea oleracea

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT LAMPS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

LACTUCA SATIVA; RAPHANUS SATIVUS; SPINACIA OLERACEA;

CHLOROPHYLL;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LETTUCE; LIGHT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; NASA CENTER KSC; NASA DISCIPLINE LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS; PHOTON; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADISH; SPINACH;

NASA CENTER KSC; NASA DISCIPLINE LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; LETTUCE; LIGHT; LIGHTING; PHOTONS; PHOTOPERIOD; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; RAPHANUS; SPINACH; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

EID: 0035064170     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.36.2.380     Document Type: Article

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