LED Lighting for Urban Agriculture
This book focuses on light-emitting diode (LED) lighting, mainly for the commercial production of horticultural crops in plant factories and greenhouses with controlled environments, giving special attention to: 1) plant growth and development as affected
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Lighting for Urban Agriculture
LED Lighting for Urban Agriculture
Toyoki Kozai • Kazuhiro Fujiwara Erik S. Runkle Editors
LED Lighting for Urban Agriculture
Editors Toyoki Kozai Japan Plant Factory Association (NPO) Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan Erik S. Runkle Department of Horticulture Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Kazuhiro Fujiwara Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences The University of Tokyo Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
ISBN 978-981-10-1846-6 ISBN 978-981-10-1848-0 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-1848-0
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Acknowledgments
We would like to thank Ms. Tokuko Takano for her editorial assistance and dedication. Thanks are extended to Professors T. Maruo, M. Takagaki, T. Yamaguchi, and Y. Shinohara of Chiba University for their academic guidance, and to K. Yamada, K. Ohshima, and S. Sakaguchi of PlantX Corporation for their technical support. We also appreciate the guidance given by Dr. Mei Hann Lee and Ms. Momoko Asawa of Springer.
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Contents
Part I
Perspective and Significance of LED Lighting for Urban Agriculture
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Why LED Lighting for Urban Agriculture? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Toyoki Kozai
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Integrated Urban Controlled Environment Agriculture Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K.C. Ting, Tao Lin, and Paul C. Davidson
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Open-Source Agriculture Initiative—Food for the Future? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caleb Harper
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Part II
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Plant Growth and Development as Affected by Light
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Some Aspects of the Light Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Toyoki Kozai and Geng Zhang
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Light
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