TITLE:
Controlled LED Lighting for Horticulture: A Review
AUTHORS:
Emmanouil D. Fylladitakis
KEYWORDS:
Horticulture Lighting, Agriculture Lighting, Controlled LED Light, Light Wavelength Effects, Light Spectrum, Vegetables, Crops, Photoreceptors
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Applied Sciences,
Vol.13 No.2,
February
14,
2023
ABSTRACT: As
energy gradually becomes a more valuable commodity, the desire for reduced
energy losses strengthens. Lighting is a critical field on this matter, as it
accounts for a large percentage of the global electricity consumption and
modern lighting systems are greatly more efficient than incandescent,
discharge, and fluorescent lights. Previous research has proven that plants do
not require the entire visible spectrum but react only to specific wavelengths,
making it possible to control their growth and yield via artificial lighting.
The flexibility of control of Light Emitting Diode (LED) lights allows for the
combination of great energy losses reduction and controlled plant growth,
achieving the improvement of two major parameters in a single action. This
review paper summarizes the current research on the effect different light
wavelengths have on specific plant species and discusses the applications of
LED lighting for horticulture, yield storage, and disease protection.