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Growth Characteristics of Lettuce under Low Pressure  

Park, Jong-Hyun (Dept. of Bioindustrial Machinery Engineering, Graduate School, Chonbuk National University)
Kim, Yong-Hyeon (Dept. of Bioindustrial Machinery Engineering, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Chonbuk National University(The Institute of Agricultural Science & Technology))
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Journal of Bio-Environment Control / v.18, no.4, 2009 , pp. 303-308 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was conducted to analyze the feasibility of plant growth under low pressure and to investigate the effect of pressure on plant growth. Three levels of pressures (25, 50, and 101.3 kPa (control)) were provided to analyze the growth of Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) as affected by low pressure. Photoperiod, air temperature, and photosynthetic photon flux were set at 16/8 h, 26/$18^{\circ}C$, and $240{\mu}mol{\cdot}m^{-2}s^{-1}$, respectively. Growth characteristics of lettuce were measured on 7 days and 14 days after experiment. Leaf length, leaf width, leaf area, and root dry weight of lettuce measured on 7 days under 25 and 50 kPa were significant as compared to the control. Leaf length, top dry matter and root dry matter of lettuce measured on 14 days were significantly different under 25 and 50 kPa. From these results, we confirmed that lettuce could be grown under low pressure. However high relative humidity by evapotranspiration from leaves and growing beds under low pressure caused the condensation on the inner surface of the chamber. Therefore in a low pressure chamber, humidity control is required to maintain the relative humidity at a proper level.
Keywords
lettuce; low pressure chamber; plant growth; relative humidity;
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