Plant Factory with Artificial Light
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 July 2023) | Viewed by 370
Special Issue Editors
Interests: color imaging; color memory; relation between light and human responses; lighting quality; vehicle lighting
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: food crops; agricultural sustainability; sustainable and industrial plant production systems; microalgae; vertical farming; photosynthesis and light; learning and teaching in higher education
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change, the reduction in arable land, as well as increasing legislator requirements for nature preservation and pest avoidance create challenges for conventional food crop production, particularly in industrial, populous regions. Under certain conditions, vertical farming could be one of the solutions to overcome these challenges. The major constrains for a widespread vegetable production by vertical farming include acceptability, energy consumption, production effectivity, appropriate urban architecture, and the overall environmental compatibility, such as the CO2 footprint.
This Special Issue will provide examples for the progress in vertical farming systems. It will provide arguments in favor of vertical farming and questions to be answered in order to contribute to the ongoing discussion about future food production.
Prof. Dr. Tran Quoc Khanh
Prof. Dr. Ralf Kaldenhoff
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- acceptance
- automation
- big data
- carbon emission
- consumer attitudes
- energy consumption
- energy cost
- environmental footprint
- indoor architecture
- indoor crop production
- IoT
- LED light
- medicinal plants
- plant nutrition
- precision agriculture
- smart cities
- sustainable urban food systems
- urban architecture
- yield
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