Control of light environment A key technique for high-yield and high-quality vegetable production in protected farmland英文文献资料.docVIP

Vol.3, No.7, 923-928 (2012) Agricultural Sciences /10.4236/as.2012.37112 Control of light environment: A key technique for high-yield and high-quality vegetable production in protected farmland Xiaoyu Yang , Xiufeng Wang , Lijuan Wang , Min Wei 1,2 1 3 1* 1 * 2 3 College of Horticultural Science and Engineering, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, China; Corresponding Author: minwei@ School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Department of Horticulture, Tanjin Agricultural College, Tianjin, China Received 22 September 2012; revised 28 October 2012; accepted 10 November 2012 ABSTRACT have been done in order to optimize the environmental conditions for high-yield and high-quality vegetable pro- duction. Among these environmental factors, light is thought to be the most important one for vegetable growth and development, particularly in protected farm- land. This review focused on recent advances in the con- trol of light environment, including light intensity, light quality, photoperiod and light direction, for vegetable production in protected farmland. The perspective for future research has also been proposed. Vegetable crops such as cucumber and tomato are grown widely through the world using not only field but also protected farmland. Sensitive responses of many vegetables have been widely reported to environmental conditions such as light, air temperature, relative humility, and CO2 concentration in the past years. Among these environmental factors, light is considered to be the most important one for vegetable growth and development, especially in protected farmland. Therefore, lots of researches on effects of light environment, including light intensity, light qual- ity, photoperiod, and light direction, on vegeta- ble gro