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Adding Phyto-LED Spectrum to White-LED Light Increases the Productivity of Lettuce Plants
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Mikhail Vereshchagin
Mikhail Vereshchagin 1,*,
Pavel Pashkovskiy
Pavel Pashkovskiy 1 and
Ivan Tarakanov
Ivan Tarakanov 2
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K.A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Botanicheskaya Street 35, Moscow 127276, Russia
2
Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, Russian State Agrarian University, Timiryazevskaya Street 49, Moscow 127550, Russia
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Horticulturae 2024, 10(8), 795; https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10080795 (registering DOI)
Submission received: 3 June 2024
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Revised: 1 July 2024
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Accepted: 25 July 2024
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Published: 27 July 2024
Abstract
Abstract: The effect of light of various spectral compositions on the complex morphophysiological parameters of lettuce plants in hydroponic was studied. The light sources had the following light spectra: warm white light—2700 K, cold white light—6500 K, and Phyto-LED light, as well as 2700 K + Phyto-LED and 6500 K + Phyto-LED. The dry and fresh biomass, leaf area, stem length, photosynthetic pigment content, photosynthesis and transpiration rates, chlorophyll fluorescence parameters, and percentage of plants that passed into the generative stage of development were studied. The results showed that partial and complete replacement of white LEDs by Phyto-LEDs with lower green light content and greater amounts of far-red light in the radiation spectrum caused an increase in plant productivity of 37%, average leaf area, and transpiration rate in the treatments but also promoted an earlier transition of plants to flowering under light treatment, Phyto-LEDs, and Phyto-LEDs + white LEDs. The 2700 K + Phyto-LED treatment had one of the highest productivities, as did the Phyto-LED and 6500 K + Phyto-LED treatments, but this lighting treatment provoked less flowering on the 60th day of the growing period.
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Vereshchagin, M.; Pashkovskiy, P.; Tarakanov, I.
Adding Phyto-LED Spectrum to White-LED Light Increases the Productivity of Lettuce Plants. Horticulturae 2024, 10, 795.
https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10080795
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Vereshchagin M, Pashkovskiy P, Tarakanov I.
Adding Phyto-LED Spectrum to White-LED Light Increases the Productivity of Lettuce Plants. Horticulturae. 2024; 10(8):795.
https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10080795
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Vereshchagin, Mikhail, Pavel Pashkovskiy, and Ivan Tarakanov.
2024. "Adding Phyto-LED Spectrum to White-LED Light Increases the Productivity of Lettuce Plants" Horticulturae 10, no. 8: 795.
https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae10080795
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