The Effect of LED Light Spectra on the Growth, Yield, and Nutritional Value of Crops
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Horticultural and Floricultural Crops".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 68
Special Issue Editors
Interests: light quality perception and photoregulation of plant development in plants and adaptation to other organisms in micropropagation and during the plant changing phase; genetic, epigenetic, and molecular physiology of plant stress tolerance and plant adaptation to environments; genetic and molecular physiology of flower and fruit development and the accumulation of secondary metabolites
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Interests: plant micropropagation; seed dormancy and germination; abiotic stress; conservative agriculture
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Interests: plant physiology; plant nutrition; postharvest; protected cropping; plant genomics; environmental stress biology; greenhouse horticulture; controlled-environment agriculture; climate change
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The spectral quality of light, combined with the irradiance and photoperiod, plays a key role in plants, influencing the morphological and functional traits of development, adaption, and growth. Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) control key physiological processes, such as phototropism, the immigration of chloroplasts, day/night period control, and the opening/closing of stomata. While LEDs can provide the specific wavelengths needed for optimal plant growth, the optimal light spectrum can vary depending on the specific crop and growing conditions. Identifying the essential wavelength ranges for controlled environmental growth in vegetable and herbs is a challenge.
LEDs offer the possibility of communicating with the light sensors in plants to regulate their metabolism, biomass production—in the greenhouse, in vitro, and in a controlled environment—and stress reduction via the activation of the metabolic pathways memorized within the genome.
Keeping in mind that LEDs also offer advantages in terms of sustainability and significant implications for indoor and vertical farming, we invite the submission of papers reporting research on the effects of light on growth, yield regulation, and increasing the nutritional value of crops.
Dr. Rosario Muleo
Dr. Valeria Cavallaro
Dr. Sachin Chavan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- photoregulation
- light regulation
- plant metabolism
- plant physiology
- nutraceutical
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