Selection of candidate salad vegetables for controlled ecological life support system

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 768-772

  Qin, L ^a   Guo, S ^a   Ai, W ^a   Tang, Y ^a  

^a China Astronaut Research and Training Center   (China)

Author keywords

Candidate crops; CELSS Experimental Facility; CO 2 concentration; Leaf photosynthetic rate; Leaf transpiration rate; Light intensity

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; NUTRIENTS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CANDIDATE CROPS; EXPERIMENTAL FACILITY; LEAF PHOTOSYNTHETIC RATES; LEAF TRANSPIRATION RATES; LIGHT INTENSITY;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 38749115773     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.09.037     Document Type: Article

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