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  title info:
    title: Plant factory
    sub title: an indoor vertical farming system for efficient quality food production
  name:
    name part: Kozai, Toyoki
    name part: 1943-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Niu, Genhua
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Takagaki, Michiko
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: ProQuest (Firm)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    edition: Second edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  table of contents: Pt. 1. Overview and concept of closed plant production system (CPPS) -- Introduction -- Role of the plant factory with artificial lighting (PFAL) in urban areas -- PFAL business and R&D in Asia and North America : Status and perspectives -- Vertical faming in Europe : Present status and outlook -- Plant factory as a resource-efficient closed plant production system -- Micro- and mini-PFALs for improving the quality of life in urban areas -- Rooftop plant production systems in urban areas -- Pt. 2. Basics of physics and physiology -- Environments and their effects -- Light sources -- Plant responses to light -- LED advancements for plant-factory artificial lighting -- Physical environmental factors and their properties -- Photosynthesis and respiration -- Growth, development, transpiration, and translocation as affected by abiotic environmental factors -- Nutrition and nutrient uptake in soilless culture systems -- Tipburn -- Functional components in leafy vegetables -- Medicinal components -- Production of pharmaceuticals in a specially designed plant factory -- Pt. 3. System design, construction, cultivation and management -- Plant production process, floor plan, and layout of PFAL -- Hydroponic systems -- Seeding, seedling production and transplanting -- Transplant production in closed systems -- Photoautotrophic micropropagation -- Biological factor management -- Design and management of PFALs -- Automated technology in plant factories with artificial lighting -- Life cycle assessment -- Education, training, and business workshops and forums on plant factories -- Pt. 4. PFALs in operation and its perspectives -- Selected PFALs in the United States, the Netherlands, and China -- Selected PFALs in Japan -- Representative plant factories in Taiwan -- Challenges for the next-generation PFALs -- Conclusions : Resource-saving and resource-consuming characteristics of PFALs.
  note: edited by Toyoki Kozai, Genhua Niu, Michiko Takagaki.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Artificial light gardening
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Food crops
    topic: Harvesting
  subject:
    topic: Crops
    topic: Technological innovations
  classification: SB126 .K65 2020
  classification: 635.954
  classification: 631.583
  identifier: 9780128166925 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0128166924 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9780128166918
  identifier: 0128166916
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: NhCcYBP
    record creation date: 191117
    record change date: 20221130133834.8
    record identifier: in00004125107