Chitosan and its oligosaccharides, a promising option for sustainable crop production-a review

KBM Ahmed, MMA Khan, H Siddiqui, A Jahan - Carbohydrate polymers, 2020 - Elsevier
Chitosan in both native and degraded form (oligosaccharides) acts as a growth promoter
and generate responses associated with both primary and secondary metabolism in plants …

LED crop illumination inside space greenhouses

YA Berkovich, IO Konovalova, SO Smolyanina… - Reach, 2017 - Elsevier
The LED lighting systems are regarded as perspective light sources for known and
projectable space greenhouses (SG), as well as terrestrial greenhouses and plant factories …

Supplemental blue light frequencies improve ripening and nutritional qualities of tomato fruits

R He, J Wei, J Zhang, X Tan, Y Li, M Gao… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum L. Micro-Tom) were grown in a plastic greenhouse. When
plants anthesis, the 100 μmol m–2 s–1 blue light-emitting diode (LED) light (430±10 nm) …

Pulsed led-lighting as an alternative energy savings technique for vertical farms and plant factories

E Olvera-Gonzalez, N Escalante-Garcia, D Myers… - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
Different strategies are reported in the literature for energy saving in Closed Plant
Production Systems (CPPS). However, not reliable evidences about energy consumption …

Single-walled carbon nanotubes modify leaf micromorphology, chloroplast ultrastructure and photosynthetic activity of pea plants

V Velikova, N Petrova, L Kovács, A Petrova… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) emerge as promising novel carbon-based
nanoparticles for use in biomedicine, pharmacology and precision agriculture. They were …

24‐Epibrassinolide alleviates drought effects in young Carapa guianensis plants, improving the hydraulic safety margin, gas exchange and antioxidant defence

AT Ribeiro, GS Teodoro, KC da Silva… - Plant …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is increasing the frequency of extreme events such as droughts, limiting
plant growth and productivity. Exogenous application of plant growth regulators, such as 24 …

Exogenous GSH protects tomatoes against salt stress by modulating photosystem II efficiency, absorbed light allocation and H2O2-scavenging system in chloroplasts

Z Yan, D Ming, JX Cui, XJ Chen, ZL Wen… - Journal of Integrative …, 2018 - Elsevier
The effects of exogenous GSH (reduced glutathione) on photosynthetic characteristics,
photosystem II efficiency, absorbed light energy allocation and the H 2 O 2-scavenging …

Application of supplementary white and pulsed light-emitting diodes to lettuce grown in a plant factory with artificial lighting

KH Son, YM Jeon, MM Oh - Horticulture, Environment, and Biotechnology, 2016 - Springer
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are currently undergoing rapid development as plant growth
light sources in a plant factory with artificial lighting (PFAL). However, little is known about …

Rerouting artificial light for efficient crops production: A review of lighting strategy in PFALs

X Liu, Y Xu, Y Wang, Q Yang, Q Li - Agronomy, 2022 - mdpi.com
A plant factory with artificial light (PFAL) is defined as an advanced agricultural production
system with a precisely controlled environment, playing an important role in vertical farming …

Comparative effect of foliar application of silicon, titanium and zinc nanoparticles on the performance of vetiver-a medicinal and aromatic plant

KBM Ahmed, MMA Khan, A Shabbir, B Ahmad… - Silicon, 2023 - Springer
In the agriculture sector, the use of nanoparticles (NPs) has become a centre of attraction for
plant biological researchers. Several studies have been accomplished regarding the …