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Volume 4, Issue 4 (Suppl)
J Laser Opt Photonics, an open access journal
ISSN: 2469-410X
Optics 2017
November 15-17, 2017
November 15-17, 2017 | Las Vegas, USA
8
th
International Conference and Exhibition on
Lasers, Optics & Photonics
LED’s for horticulture: Novel insights in plant cultivation
Giedre Samuoliene
Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Lithuania
A
dvances in light technology are rapidly developing, the light-emitting diode (LED) technology as supplementary light in
greenhouses, phytofactories or other closed environment growing chambers is a powerful tool for purposeful and appropriate
plant cultivation. LED lighting, due to its technical possibility to control dynamic or continuous light spectrum, intensity, frequency
of each component and period is useful for research applications, as well as such lighting is useful for growers, due to energy saving
properties. The development of agronomic research ensures the public demand for vegetable food, feed and industry raw materials.
Plant physiology is considered to be theoretical background for agronomy (crop production and horticulture). Knowledge of
plant physiology patterns and management of crop photosynthetic indices by technological tools enables to control formation of
productivity elements and quality of production. Moreover, response to light is not a simple linear signal transduction pathway,
but it is integrated information outcome of various photoreceptors, which act through complex network of interacting signaling
components. This enables to induce weak photo stress in purpose to manipulate plant antioxidant potential. Thus, such plant
physiologycal researches allows to know plant functioning mechanisms, control processes of growth and development, realize
potential of biological productivity. The opportunity to control processes of growth, biological productivity and nutritional quality
using traditional high-pressure sodium and/or innovative light-emitting diode lighting will be presented.
Biography
Giedre Samuoliene has completed her PhD from Aleksandras Stulginskis University (Biomedical Sciences, Agronomy). She is the Chief Researcher of Laboratory of Plant
Physiology and the Deputy Director for Research of Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Institute of Horticulture and Lector at Aleksandras Stulgisnkis
University. She has published 25 in ISI WoS data base journals with impact factor, 24 publications in ISI WoS data base journals without impact factor. She received National
Science Award (2014, with co-authors), Silver Medal of Vytautas Magnus University (2015) and Scholarship of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (2012-2013).
g.samuoliene@lsdi.ltGiedre Samuoliene, J Laser Opt Photonics 2017, 4:4 (Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2469-410X-C1-017