Plant lighting system with five wavelength-band light-emitting diodes providing photon flux density and mixing ratio control

Plant Methods

Kazuhiro Fujiwara¹  Akira Yano² 

[1] Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan;Faculty of Life and Environmental Science, Shimane University, 1060 Nishikawatsu, Matsue, Shimane, 690-8504, Japan

关键词: Gradient light;    Blue light;    Red light;    Oat coleoptiles;    Phototropism;    Spectral irradiance;    Spectral photon flux density;    Spectrum;    LED;   

Others  :  821311
DOI  :  10.1186/1746-4811-8-46

 received in 2012-07-26, accepted in 2012-11-21,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

Background

Plant growth and development depend on the availability of light. Lighting systems therefore play crucial roles in plant studies. Recent advancements of light-emitting diode (LED) technologies provide abundant opportunities to study various plant light responses. The LED merits include solidity, longevity, small element volume, radiant flux controllability, and monochromaticity. To apply these merits in plant light response studies, a lighting system must provide precisely controlled light spectra that are useful for inducing various plant responses.

Results

We have developed a plant lighting system that irradiated a 0.18 m² area with a highly uniform distribution of photon flux density (PFD). The average photosynthetic PFD (PPFD) in the irradiated area was 438 micro-mol m^–2 s^–1 (coefficient of variation 9.6%), which is appropriate for growing leafy vegetables. The irradiated light includes violet, blue, orange-red, red, and far-red wavelength bands created by LEDs of five types. The PFD and mixing ratio of the five wavelength-band lights are controllable using a computer and drive circuits. The phototropic response of oat coleoptiles was investigated to evaluate plant sensitivity to the light control quality of the lighting system. Oat coleoptiles irradiated for 23 h with a uniformly distributed spectral PFD (SPFD) of 1 micro-mol m^–2 s^–1 nm^–1 at every peak wavelength (405, 460, 630, 660, and 735 nm) grew almost straight upwards. When they were irradiated with an SPFD gradient of blue light (460 nm peak wavelength), the coleoptiles showed a phototropic curvature in the direction of the greater SPFD of blue light. The greater SPFD gradient induced the greater curvature of coleoptiles. The relation between the phototropic curvature (deg) and the blue-light SPFD gradient (micro-mol m^–2 s^–1 nm^–1 m^–1) was 2 deg per 1 micro-mol m^–2 s^–1 nm^–1 m^–1.

Conclusions

The plant lighting system, with a computer with a graphical user interface program, can control the PFD and mixing ratios of five wavelength-band lights. A highly uniform PFD distribution was achieved, although an intentionally distorted PFD gradient was also created. Phototropic responses of oat coleoptiles to the blue light gradient demonstrated the merit of fine controllability of this plant lighting system.

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Yano and Fujiwara; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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