Farming in space: environmental and biophysical concerns

O Monje, GW Stutte, GD Goins, DM Porterfield… - Advances in Space …, 2003 - Elsevier
The colonization of space will depend on our ability to routinely provide for the metabolic
needs (oxygen, water, and food) of a crew with minimal re-supply from Earth. On Earth …

Evaluation of lettuce growth using supplemental green light with red and blue light-emitting diodes in a controlled environment-a review of research at Kennedy Space …

HH Kim, RM Wheeler, JC Sager, GD Gains… - … Symposium on Artificial …, 2005 - actahort.org
National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Biological Sciences research
group at Kennedy Space Center performed several experiments with lettuce, one of the …

Effects of light intensity on the growth and leaf development of young tomato plants grown under a combination of red and blue light

XX Fan, ZG Xu, XY Liu, CM Tang, LW Wang, X Han - Scientia horticulturae, 2013 - Elsevier
We used red light-emitting diodes (LEDs, R) and blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs, B) to
obtain the different light intensities of uniform spectra and investigated the effects of different …

[PDF][PDF] Improving spinach, radish, and lettuce growth under red light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with blue light supplementation

NC Yorio, GD Goins, HR Kagie, RM Wheeler… - …, 2001 - researchgate.net
Materials and Methods Cultural conditions. All plants were grown hydroponically using
nutrient film technique (Graves, 1981) with a modified half-strength Hoagland's solution …

Photomorphogenesis, photosynthesis, and seed yield of wheat plants grown under red light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with and without supplemental blue lighting

GD Goins, NC Yorio, MM Sanwo… - Journal of experimental …, 1997 - academic.oup.com
Red light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are a potential light source for growing plants in spaceflight
systems because of their safety, small mass and volume, wavelength specificity, and …

Blue LED light enhances growth, phytochemical contents, and antioxidant enzyme activities of Rehmannia glutinosa cultured in vitro

A Manivannan, P Soundararajan, N Halimah… - Horticulture …, 2015 - Springer
The objective of the current study is to determine the effect of light quality on enhancement of
growth, phytochemicals, antioxidant potential, and antioxidant enzyme activities at in vitro …

Anatomical features of pepper plants (Capsicum annuumL.) grown under red light-emitting diodes supplemented with blue or far-red light

AC Schuerger, CS Brown, EC Stryjewski - Annals of Botany, 1997 - Elsevier
Pepper plants (Capsicum annuumL. cv., Hungarian Wax) were grown under metal halide
(MH) lamps or light-emitting diode (LED) arrays with different spectra to determine the effects …

Spectral effects of three types of white light-emitting diodes on plant growth and development: absolute versus relative amounts of blue light

KR Cope, B Bugbee - HortScience, 2013 - journals.ashs.org
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are a rapidly developing technology for plant growth lighting
and have become a powerful tool for understanding the spectral effects of light on plants …

Responses of strawberry plantlets cultured in vitro under superbright red and blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs)

DT Nhut, T Takamura, H Watanabe, K Okamoto… - Plant Cell, Tissue and …, 2003 - Springer
Unrooted strawberry cv.Akihime'shoots with three leaves obtained from standard
mixotrophic cultures were cultured in the``Culture Pack''-rockwool system with sugar-free MS …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of light spectrum on the morphology and cannabinoid content of Cannabis sativa L.

G Magagnini, G Grassi, S Kotiranta - Medical Cannabis and …, 2018 - karger.com
Cannabis sativa L. flowers are the main source of Δ-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) used in
medicine. One of the most important growth factors in cannabis cultivation is light; light …