Plant Production In Closed Ecosystems

Plant Production in Closed Ecosystems provides overviews of the current trends and concepts in plant production in closed or semi-closed environments. The overviews reflect both the present and future challenges that face the agricultural industry and the methods and tools which will meet these challenges. Plant Production in Closed Ecosystems contains the full texts of the Special Lectures from the International Symposium on Plant Production in Closed Ecosystems, plus several contributed papers. The challenges which await the agricultural industry are diverse. This diversity is reflected in the topics that were covered in the special lectures given by experts in the field. These topics included: greenhouse horticulture, hydroponics, micropropagation, food production in space, environmental control, co-generation, controlled ecological life support systems (CELSS), and resource conservation.

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Provides overviews of the current trends and concepts in producing plants in closed or semi-closed environments such as greenhouses, hydroponic factories, tissue-culture vessels, and space. The section on greenhouse technology includes discussions of the controlled flowering of herbaceous perennial plants, a demonstration greenhouse using methane gas from a landfill for co-generation, monitoring and controlling water and nutrient supply, and photoselective films with interference effects. Among other topics are automation and systems analysis, gas turnover and conditions in hermetically closed plant production systems, interaction between space and terrestrial approaches in plant science, and the optimal structure of a plant conveyor for human life support in a closed ecosystem. Three papers have been added to the symposium's 17 lectures. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.