Emergent molecular traits of lettuce and tomato grown under wavelength-selective solar cells
The integration of semi-transparent organic solar cells (ST-OSCs) in greenhouses offers new agrivoltaic opportunities to meet the growing demands for sustainable food production. The tailored absorption/transmission spectra of ST-OSCs impacts the power generated as well as crop growth, development a...
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| author | Melodi Charles Brianne Edwards Eshwar Ravishankar John Calero Reece Henry Jeromy Rech Carole Saravitz Wei You Harald Ade Brendan O’Connor Heike Sederoff |
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| description | The integration of semi-transparent organic solar cells (ST-OSCs) in greenhouses offers new agrivoltaic opportunities to meet the growing demands for sustainable food production. The tailored absorption/transmission spectra of ST-OSCs impacts the power generated as well as crop growth, development and responses to the biotic and abiotic environments. To characterize crop responses to ST-OSCs, we grew lettuce and tomato, traditional greenhouse crops, under three ST-OSC filters that create different light spectra. Lettuce yield and early tomato development are not negatively affected by the modified light environment. Our genomic analysis reveals that lettuce production exhibits beneficial traits involving nutrient content and nitrogen utilization while select ST-OSCs impact regulation of flowering initiation in tomato. These results suggest that ST-OSCs integrated into greenhouses are not only a promising technology for energy-neutral, sustainable and climate-change protected crop production, but can deliver benefits beyond energy considerations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0990c46084884bc4ab453bad8add98e02023-02-24T11:19:00ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Plant Science1664-462X2023-02-011410.3389/fpls.2023.10877071087707Emergent molecular traits of lettuce and tomato grown under wavelength-selective solar cellsMelodi Charles0Brianne Edwards1Eshwar Ravishankar2John Calero3Reece Henry4Jeromy Rech5Carole Saravitz6Wei You7Harald Ade8Brendan O’Connor9Heike Sederoff10Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United StatesDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United StatesDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Organic and Carbon Electronics Laboratories, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United StatesDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United StatesDepartment of Physics and Organic and Carbon Electronics Laboratories, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United StatesDepartment of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United StatesDepartment of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesDepartment of Physics and Organic and Carbon Electronics Laboratories, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United StatesDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Organic and Carbon Electronics Laboratories, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United StatesDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United StatesThe integration of semi-transparent organic solar cells (ST-OSCs) in greenhouses offers new agrivoltaic opportunities to meet the growing demands for sustainable food production. The tailored absorption/transmission spectra of ST-OSCs impacts the power generated as well as crop growth, development and responses to the biotic and abiotic environments. To characterize crop responses to ST-OSCs, we grew lettuce and tomato, traditional greenhouse crops, under three ST-OSC filters that create different light spectra. Lettuce yield and early tomato development are not negatively affected by the modified light environment. Our genomic analysis reveals that lettuce production exhibits beneficial traits involving nutrient content and nitrogen utilization while select ST-OSCs impact regulation of flowering initiation in tomato. These results suggest that ST-OSCs integrated into greenhouses are not only a promising technology for energy-neutral, sustainable and climate-change protected crop production, but can deliver benefits beyond energy considerations.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2023.1087707/fullagrivoltaicgreenhousesolar powersustainabilitygene networksphotosynthesis |
| spellingShingle | Melodi Charles Brianne Edwards Eshwar Ravishankar John Calero Reece Henry Jeromy Rech Carole Saravitz Wei You Harald Ade Brendan O’Connor Heike Sederoff Emergent molecular traits of lettuce and tomato grown under wavelength-selective solar cells Frontiers in Plant Science agrivoltaic greenhouse solar power sustainability gene networks photosynthesis |
| title | Emergent molecular traits of lettuce and tomato grown under wavelength-selective solar cells |
| title_full | Emergent molecular traits of lettuce and tomato grown under wavelength-selective solar cells |
| title_fullStr | Emergent molecular traits of lettuce and tomato grown under wavelength-selective solar cells |
| title_full_unstemmed | Emergent molecular traits of lettuce and tomato grown under wavelength-selective solar cells |
| title_short | Emergent molecular traits of lettuce and tomato grown under wavelength-selective solar cells |
| title_sort | emergent molecular traits of lettuce and tomato grown under wavelength selective solar cells |
| topic | agrivoltaic greenhouse solar power sustainability gene networks photosynthesis |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2023.1087707/full |
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