Comparison of intracanopy light-emitting diode towers and overhead high-pressure sodium lamps for supplemental lighting of greenhouse-grown tomatoes

HortTechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 93-98

  Gómez, Celina ^a   Morrow, Robert C ^b   Bourget, C Michael ^b   Massa, Gioia D ^c   Mitchell, Cary A ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Orbital Technologies Corporation   (United States)

^c KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Controlled environments; High wire tomato; LED; Solanum lycopersicum; Solid state lighting; Vertical lighting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875753213     PISSN: 10630198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/horttech.23.1.93     Document Type: Article

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