LED Lighting to Produce High-Quality Ornamental Plants
The flexibility of LED technology, in terms of energy efficiency, robustness, compactness, long lifetime, and low heat emission, as well as its applications as a sole source or supplemental lighting system, offers interesting potential, giving the ornamental industry an edge over traditional product...
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| description | The flexibility of LED technology, in terms of energy efficiency, robustness, compactness, long lifetime, and low heat emission, as well as its applications as a sole source or supplemental lighting system, offers interesting potential, giving the ornamental industry an edge over traditional production practices. Light is a fundamental environmental factor that provides energy for plants through photosynthesis, but it also acts as a signal and coordinates multifaceted plant-growth and development processes. With manipulations of light quality affecting specific plant traits such as flowering, plant architecture, and pigmentation, the focus has been placed on the ability to precisely manage the light growing environment, proving to be an effective tool to produce tailored plants according to market request. Applying lighting technology grants growers several productive advantages, such as planned production (early flowering, continuous production, and predictable yield), improved plant habitus (rooting and height), regulated leaf and flower color, and overall improved quality attributes of commodities. Potential LED benefits to the floriculture industry are not limited to the aesthetic and economic value of the product obtained; LED technology also represents a solid, sustainable option for reducing agrochemical (plant-growth regulators and pesticides) and energy inputs (power energy). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8b64ec6f84e34539ba5a391721e1662c2023-11-17T20:59:56ZengMDPI AGPlants2223-77472023-04-01128166710.3390/plants12081667LED Lighting to Produce High-Quality Ornamental PlantsAlice Trivellini0Stefania Toscano1Daniela Romano2Antonio Ferrante3Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Università degli Studi di Catania, 95131 Catania, ItalyDepartment of Science Veterinary, Università degli Studi di Messina, 98168 Messina, ItalyDepartment of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Università degli Studi di Catania, 95131 Catania, ItalyDepartment of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences—Production, Landscape, Agroenergy, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milan, ItalyThe flexibility of LED technology, in terms of energy efficiency, robustness, compactness, long lifetime, and low heat emission, as well as its applications as a sole source or supplemental lighting system, offers interesting potential, giving the ornamental industry an edge over traditional production practices. Light is a fundamental environmental factor that provides energy for plants through photosynthesis, but it also acts as a signal and coordinates multifaceted plant-growth and development processes. With manipulations of light quality affecting specific plant traits such as flowering, plant architecture, and pigmentation, the focus has been placed on the ability to precisely manage the light growing environment, proving to be an effective tool to produce tailored plants according to market request. Applying lighting technology grants growers several productive advantages, such as planned production (early flowering, continuous production, and predictable yield), improved plant habitus (rooting and height), regulated leaf and flower color, and overall improved quality attributes of commodities. Potential LED benefits to the floriculture industry are not limited to the aesthetic and economic value of the product obtained; LED technology also represents a solid, sustainable option for reducing agrochemical (plant-growth regulators and pesticides) and energy inputs (power energy).https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/12/8/1667light-emitting diodesfloweringpostharvestplant architecturered lightblue light |
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| title | LED Lighting to Produce High-Quality Ornamental Plants |
| title_full | LED Lighting to Produce High-Quality Ornamental Plants |
| title_fullStr | LED Lighting to Produce High-Quality Ornamental Plants |
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| title_short | LED Lighting to Produce High-Quality Ornamental Plants |
| title_sort | led lighting to produce high quality ornamental plants |
| topic | light-emitting diodes flowering postharvest plant architecture red light blue light |
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