
Plant Factory
An Indoor Vertical Farming System for Efficient Quality Food Production
Description
Key Features
- Includes coverage of LED technology
- Presents case-studies for real-world insights and application
- Addresses PF from economics and planning, to operation and lifecycle assessment
Readership
Researchers, students and industry professionals in agriculture, food engineering, Food security
Table of Contents
Part 1: Overview and concept of closed plant production system (CPPS)
1. Introduction
2. Role of the plant factory with artificial lighting (PFAL) in urban areas
3. PFAL business and R&D in Asia and North America: Status and perspectives
4. Vertical farming in Europe: Present status and outlook
5. Plant factory as a resource-efficient closed plant production system
6. Micro- and mini-PFALs for improving the quality of life in urban areas
7. Rooftop plant production systems in urban areasPart 2: Basics of physics and physiology - Environments and their effects
8. Light sources
9. Plant responses to light
10. LED advancements for plant-factory artificial lighting
11. Physical environmental factors and their properties
12. Photosynthesis and respiration
13. Growth, development, transpiration, and translocation as affected by abiotic environmental factors
14. Nutrition and nutrient uptake in soilless culture systems
15. Tipburn
16. Functional components in leafy vegetables
17. Medicinal components
18. Production of pharmaceuticals in a specially designed plant factoryPart 3: System design, construction, cultivation and management
19. Plant production process, floor plan, and layout of PFAL
20. Hydroponic systems
21. Seeding, seedling production and transplanting
22. Transplant production in closed systems
23. Photoautotrophic micropropagation
24. Biological factor management
25. Design and management of PFALs
26. Automated technology in plant factories with artificial lighting
27. Life cycle assessment
28. Education, training, and business workshops and forums on plant factoriesPart 4: PFALs in operation and its perspectives
29. Selected PFALs in the United States, the Netherlands, and China
30. Selected PFALs in Japan
31. Representative plant factories in Taiwan
32. Challenges for the next-generation PFALs
33. Conclusions: Resource-saving and resource-consuming characteristics of PFALs
Product details
- No. of pages: 516
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: November 3, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128166925
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128166918
About the Editors
Toyoki Kozai
Affiliations and Expertise
Genhua Niu
Affiliations and Expertise
Michiko Takagaki
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
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Albert D. Tue May 03 2022
Plant factory
Good overview of latest research in the field.
RobertHoffman Fri Jan 10 2020
Plant Factory
Good Technical Details on most of the aspects of plant factories. I would like to see more information on lighting intensities, DLI, lighting spectrums and uniformity of air flow.