
Plant Factory Basics, Applications and Advances
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Key Features
- Provides the most in-depth assessment of PFAL available
- Compares PFAL to “indoor vertical farming” and provides important insights into selecting optimal choice
- Presents insights to inspire design and management of the next generation of PFALs
Readership
Researchers, students and industry professionals in agriculture, food engineering, food security
Table of Contents
PART 1. Introduction
1. Why plant factories with artificial lighting (PFALs) are necessary
2. Terms related to PFALs
3. Role and characteristics of PFALs
4. Contribution of PFALs to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Beyond
PART 2. Basics
5. Photonmetric quantities and their application
6. LED product terminology and performance description of LED luminaires
7. Photon efficacy in horticulture: turning LED packages into LED luminaires
8. Balances and use efficiencies of CO2, water and energy
9. Hydroponics
10. Aquaponics
11. Plant responses to environments
PART 3. Applications
12. Productivity: Definition and application
13. How to integrate and optimize productivity
14. Emerging economics and profitability of PFALs
15. Business models and cost performance of downtown mini-plant factories
16. Indoor production of tomatoes
SECTION 4. Advanced Research in PFALs and Indoor Farms
17. Toward an optimal spectrum for photosynthesis and plant morphology in LED-based crop cultivation
18. Indoor lighting effects on plant nutritional compounds and mineral elements
19. Indoor Production of Ornamental Seedlings, Vegetable Transplants, and Microgreens
20. Molecular breeding of miraculin-accumulating tomatoes with suitable traits for cultivation in PFALs and the optimization of cultivation methods
21. Environmental control of PFAL
22. Human-Centered Perspective on Urban Agriculture
23. Towards commercial production of head vegetables in plant factories with artificial lighting (PFALs)
24. Concluding remarks
Product details
- No. of pages: 462
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2021
- Published: November 16, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780323859226
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323851527
About the Editors
Toyoki Kozai
Affiliations and Expertise
Genhua Niu
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Joseph Masabni
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