title: Development of plant growth apparatus using blue and red LED as artificial light source.
abstract: It is known that chlorophyll has the second distinct absorption peak in the vicinity of 450nm (blue light region) other than the first peak in the vicinity of 660nm (red light region) in its light absorption spectrum The blue light is also indispensable to the morphologically healthy growth plant. On the other hand, the red light contributes to the plant photosynthesis. Noticing this facts, we have developed various kind of plant growth apparatus using many pieces of blue light LED and red light LED with emission wavelength 450nm and 660nm as artificial light source. In this paper, we introduce our LED plant growth apparatus and systems named such as LED PACK, BIOLED, UNIPACK, and COMPACK with respect to their structure, function, electrical design, and characteristics.
authors.affiliation: Kagawa University, Takamatsu, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Okamoto
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yanagi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Takita
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Higuchi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ushida
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Watanabe
mesh_terms: D018504:Ecological Systems, Closed; D004867:Equipment Design; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D008021:Life Support Systems / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008027:Light; D008029:Lighting / Q000379:methods*; D063245:Plant Development; D010944:Plants / Q000528:radiation effects*