Proceedings of the 2015 2nd International Forum on Electrical Engineering and Automation (IFEEA 2015)

Effect of Supplemental Light with Different Spectral LEDs on the Growth of Tomato Seedlings in North Greenhouse

Authors
Qiuying Zou, Jianwei Ji, Zhengming Li
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Qiuying Zou
Available Online January 2016.
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10.2991/ifeea-15.2016.80How to use a DOI?
Keywords
LED, Supplemental Light, tomato seedlings, chlorophyll fluorescence parameter.
Abstract

The application of light emitting diodes (LEDs) for supplemental lighting is expected to increase quality of tomato seedlings in north greenhouse with less cost. Experiments were carried out to investigate the effect of supplemental lighting by LEDs with two different spectral qualities (blue, red and the combination of the two) on the growth of tomato seedlings. Plants were grown under different spectral light treatments for a month. The photosynthetic photon flux (PPF, 400-700 nm) at the top of plants was adjusted to 100 µmol m-2 s-1. LEDs were used during the overnight period. The lighting was provided at a PPF level of 50 µmol m-2 s-1. The air temperatures were kept between 18 and 26°C. The relative humidity was maintained at 60% throughout the periods. The results showed that the growth of tomato seedlings was affected by the light quality of the overnight lighting. Particularly, Chlorophyll fluorescence parameters of tomato seedlings in solar greenhouse has change significantly, especially the value of psII parameter increased significantly under the combination of red and blue LEDs. It demonstrates that light energy conversion efficiency could be increased in this method.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2015 2nd International Forum on Electrical Engineering and Automation (IFEEA 2015)
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
January 2016
ISBN
10.2991/ifeea-15.2016.80
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/ifeea-15.2016.80How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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