Horticultural Crops Responses to LED Lighting
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 40
Special Issue Editors
Interests: the influence of different LED light treatments on the growth and salt stress tolerance of cauliflower microgreens in vitro
Interests: plant tissue culture; plant regeneration; somatic embryogenesis; light treatments; salt stress; genes expression
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Interests: horticultural lighting; photosynthetic light response; lighting optimization; economics and sustainability of vertical farming; sensors; modeling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Light-emitting diodes are a new, more modern light source that is increasingly used as an alternative light source for growing plants. LEDs provide a narrow spectrum of light emission with minimal heat generation. It has been shown that a narrow spectrum of defined wavelengths can specifically affect numerous physiological processes in plants. Each plant responds differently to a certain part of the spectrum, just as a specific combination of light affects certain physiological processes or morphological characteristics of plants. Many previous studies have shown that a certain combination of LED light is many times more effective than the traditional use of white light. Determining optimal light conditions for growing is one of the most important criteria in establishing alternative plant cultivation, which is one of the most important principles of regenerative agriculture.
We invite authors to contribute to this special issue with articles of all forms (original, review, etc.). We want this special issue to bring together new discoveries in the field of the impact of LED light on morphological (leaf height, width, number and shape of stomata, and yield, etc.), physiological (content of plant growth regulators, expression of genes key to a particular physiological process, etc.), and biochemical parameters (content of primary and secondary metabolites).
Dr. Jelena Milojević
Dr. Suzana Pavlović
Dr. László Balázs
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- LED
- morphological plant characteristics
- crops yield
- gene expression
- biochemical composition
- secondary metabolites
- plant growth regulations
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