This book provides expert insights into the best practices and lessons learned regarding the growth of food supply plants in controlled environments using artificial light
Part I Overview and concept of closed plant production system
(CPPS) 1. Introduction 2. Role of plant factory with artificial
lighting (PFAL) in urban areas 3. PFAL business and R&D in the
world – current status and perspectives 4. Plant factory as a
resource-efficient closed plant production system 5. Micro- and
mini-PFALs for improving quality of life in urban areas 6. Rooftop
plant production systems in urban areas
Part II Basics of physics and physiology – Environments and their
effects 7. Light 8. Physical environmental factors and their
properties 9. Photosynthesis and respiration 10. Growth,
development, transpiration and translocation as affected by abiotic
environmental factors 11. Nutrition and nutrient uptake in
hydroponic systems 12. Tip burn 13. Functional components in leafy
vegetables 14. Medicinal components 15. Production of
pharmaceuticals in a specially designed plant factory Part III
System design, construction, cultivation and management 16. Plant
production process, floor plan and layout of PFAL 17. Hydroponic
systems 18. Seeding, seedling production and transplanting 19.
Transplant production in closed systems 20. Photoautotrophic
micropropagation 21. Biological factor management 22. Design and
management of PFAL 23. Automated technology in plant factories with
artificial lighting 24. Life cycle assessment 25. Education,
training, intensive business forums on plant factories Part IV
PFALs in operation and its perspectives 26. Selected commercial
PFALs in Japan and Taiwan 27. Challenges for the next-generation
PFAL 28. Conclusions: resource-saving and resource-consuming
characteristics of PFALs
Toyoki Kozai Ph.D,?is the president of The Agricultural Academy of
Japan. After establishing his early work on greenhouse light
environments, energy savings, ventilation, and computer
applications, his scientific interest was extended to in-vitro
environments and their control for sugar-free medium
micro-propagation and transplant production in closed systems using
artificial lighting. He served as President of the Japan Plant
Factory Association (a non-profit organization) and is leading the
research and development of controlled environmental greenhouses
using heat pumps, artificial lighting, fogging,?CO2 enrichment, and
nutrient solution control systems.
Selected awards are Lifetime Achievement Award (2009) from Society
of In Vitro Biology, USA. The 2002 Purple Ribbon Award from
Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports. Japan Prize of
Agricultural Sciences from Association of Japanese Agricultural
Scientific Societies, 2018 honorary PhD degree from Mahidol
University, Thailand ‘The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and
Silver Star’ from Japanese Government 2019. Dr. Genhua is a
professor in urban horticulture with Texas A&M AgriLife
Research at Dallas and Department of Horticultural Sciences. Her
area of expertise is controlled environment agriculture and plant
stress physiology. Her current research focuses on hydroponics,
nutrition management, LED lighting, optimization of growing
environment, and development of best management practices related
to urban controlled environment agriculture. She is the co-editor
and author of the book “Plant Factory - Indoor Vertical Farming for
Efficient Quality Food Production (1st & 2nd edition). Dr. Niu
received several awards from Texas A&M University for her
service and research, American Society for Horticultural Science,
and USDA-NIFA. Dr. Takagaki is Professor at the Graduate School of
Horticulture, Chiba University, assigned to the University Farm,
and has engaged in education and research.
In charge of foreign student affairs since 1997 and of
international affairs in general since 2006. She holds a concurrent
assignment as the Director of the Center for Environment, Health
and Fields Sciences since 2009 (2009-2015, 2018-present). Engaging
with research and experiments in Agronomy of Tropical Agriculture
with major fields in Thailand, Indonesia and other Southeast Asian
countries, Dr. Takagaki has done research and taught in the fields
of tropical agriculture, environmental control, protected
horticulture and training of basic horticulture.
"Plant Factory is very useful for a beginner interested to venture into crop production using plant factory system. It provides a comprehensive information from all aspects of crop production under a housing or factory system, inclusive the design of the structure and lighting and their mantainance. I would recommend it to be used as a textbook for horticulture course on vegetables production system where land is limited such as in urban areas. The science or technical know-how is very strong as a lot of research has been conducted to support the claims. It is quite unusual for a book to even provide information on the training centre whereby a trainee can register himself or herself. As it mentioned, this system of vegetables production is rather costly and the economics or cost-benefit analysis should be included as one of the main topic in the book. Also, the risk or probability of failure of the entrepreneur investing in this system to succeed or make money should also be highlighted. Also, it will be quite useful to know the perception of customers or how to convince the customers to pay more for the vegetables produced in the plant factory." -- Prof. Dr. Che Fauziah Ishak, Universiti Putra Malaysia
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