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A Step Forward Towards Advanced And Self-Sustainable Greenhouse Agriculture, Mohammad Nur E Alam, Mikhail Vasiliev, Jacqualine Anne Thomas
A Step Forward Towards Advanced And Self-Sustainable Greenhouse Agriculture, Mohammad Nur E Alam, Mikhail Vasiliev, Jacqualine Anne Thomas
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
It is now time for the future-generation and advanced greenhouse design practices to address a range of issues, from the energy and land use efficiency to providing plant-optimised growth techniques. In this Encyclopaedia record, we report on the practical development of spectrally selective and specialist-type advanced metal-dielectric thin-film filters that produce the optimized illumination spectrum when exposed to natural sunlight that can help maximize the biomass productivity of coated-glass greenhouse crops. Our experimental case study has been performed for the lettuce species, Lactuca sativa, L., yielding promising results.