Controlled Environment Horticulture: Indoor Farming and Novel Cultivation Technologies
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Protected Culture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 1111
Special Issue Editors
Interests: greenhouse; plant factory; soilless culture; artificial light; climate control; plant physiology
Interests: crop growth models; phenotypic acquisition and analysis; production management decisions system
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Controlled environment horticulture is a key solution to the challenges associated with the high-quality supply horticultural production and the increasing pressure of traditional agricultural cultivation due to climate change. A controlled environment includes facilities designed to provide an optimal environment for horticultural plants, which mainly includes indoor farms (or plant factories) and modern greenhouses, that allow for the precise control of light, temperature, humidity, CO2, and irrigation. Plants cultivated in these facilities include vegetables, fruits, flowers, medicinal species, ect.
The purpose of this Special Issue, titled “Controlled Environment Horticulture: Indoor Farming and Novel Cultivation Technologies” is to present innovative studies and techniques that have been successfully used in plant factories or modern greenhouses. These include the following: using LED lighting in efficient seedling and plant cultivation (exploring techniques and mechanisms on plant light quality, light intensity, light period, etc.), energy-saving technologies (the specialized selection of certain varieties; highly efficient light, temperature, humidity, CO2, and irrigation control technologies, etc.), technologies for growing high-quality fruit and vegetables (nutrient solutions, far-red and ultraviolet light, substrates, grafting, hormones, etc.), plant growth models, and any other method that has improved the efficiency and sustainability of controlled environment horticultural crops for the production of high-quality produce and high yields. Original studies on these physiology and cultivation techniques or review papers on controlled environments are welcome for submission. We look forward to receiving your manuscripts to share these achievements with the scientific community.
Prof. Dr. Xiaotao Ding
Prof. Dr. Liying Chang
Prof. Dr. Qingliang Niu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- artificial light
- LED lighting
- precision agriculture
- climate control
- hydroponics
- indoor farming
- vegetables
- flowers
- fruits
- nutrients
- plant factory
- soilless culture
- modern greenhouse
- product quality
- phenotypic acquisition and analysis
- artificial intelligence
- crop growth models
- production management decisions system
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