Transplant Production in the 21st Century: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Transplant Production in Closed System for Solving the Global Issues on Environmental Conservation, Food, Resources and Energy / Edition 1

by Chieri Kubota, Changhoo Chun

Overview

We are facing global issues concerning environmental pollution and shortages of food, feed, phytomass (plant biomass) and natural resources, which will become more serious in the forthcoming decades. To solve these issues, immeasurable numbers of various plants and huge amounts of phytomass are required every year for food, feed and for the improvement of amenities, the environment and our quality of life. Increased phytomass is also required as alternative raw material for producing bio-energy, biodegradable plastics and many other plant-originated industrial products. Only by using phytomass as a reproducible energy source and raw material, instead of fossil fuels and atomic power, we can save natural resources and minimize environmental pollution. To increase phytomass globally, we need billions of quality transplants (small plants) to be grown yearly, in the field or in the greenhouse, under various environmental conditions. However, these high quality transplants can be produced only under carefully controlled, rather than variable environment al conditions. Recent research has shown that the closed transplant production system requires considerably small amounts of electricity, water, fertilizer, CO) and pesticide to produce value-added transplants as scheduled with minimum release of environmental pollutants and minimum loss of transplants. The closed or closed-type transplant production system is defined as a transplant production system covered with opaque walls with minimized or controlled ventilation rates, using artificial lighting. With this system, photoperiod, light intensity and quality, air temperature, humidity, CO) concentration and air current speed can be controlled as desired.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792365945
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	11/30/2000
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Closed transplant production systems.- Necessity and Concept of the Closed Transplant Production System.- Closed Transplant Production System at Chiba University.- Electric Energy, Water and Carbon Dioxide Utilization Efficiencies of a Closed-Type Transplant Production System.- Microprecision Irrigation System for Transplant Production.- Design Concepts of Computerized Support Systems for Large-Scale Transplant Production.- Technology in transplant production.- Modeling and Simulation in Transplant Production under Controlled Environment.- Object-Oriented Analysis and Modeling of Closed Plant Production Systems.- Estimating Cuticle Resistance of Seedling Shoot Tips Based on the Penman-Monteith Model.- Measurement of pH in Guard Cells Using a Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope.- Does Electrolyzed-Reduced Water Protect Plants from Photoinhibition?.- Environmental Control for Improved Plant Quality Within Controlled Environment Plant Production Systems.- Environmental Engineering for Transplant Production.- Effects of Air Current on Transpiration and Net Photosynthetic Rates of Plants in a Closed Plant Production System.- Effects of Air Temperature, Relative Humidity and Photosynthetic Photon Flux on the Evapotranspiration Rate of Grafted Seedlings Under Artificial Lighting.- Growth of Tomato (lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) Plug Transplants in a Closed System at Relatively High Air Current Speeds — a Preliminary Study.- Advances and Current Limitations of Plug Transplant Technology in Korea.- A Review on Artificial Lighting of Tissue Cultures and Transplants.- Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) as a Radiation Source for Micropropagation of Strawberry.- Application of Red Laser Diode as a Light Source for Plant Production.- Effective Vegetable Transplant Production Programs forClosed-Type Systems Under Different Lighting Regimes.- Photoautotrophic Micropropagation in a Natural Light Environment.- Production of Value-Added Transplants in Closed Systems with Artificial Lighting.- High Quality Plug-Transplants Produced in a Closed System Enables Pot-Transplant Production of Pansy in the Summer.- Yield and Growth of Sweetpotato Using Plug Transplants as Affected by Their Ages and Planting Depths.- Yield and Growth of Sweetpotato Using Plug Transplants as Affected by Cell Volume of Plug Tray and Type of Cutting.- Production of Medicinal Plant Species in Sterile, Controlled Environments.- Effect of Air Temperature on Tipburn Incidence of Butterhead and Leaf Lettuce in a Plant Factory.- Evaluation of Lettuce Cultivars Suitable for Closed Plant Production System.- Root Growth Subsequent to Transplanting in Plug-Grown Cabbage Seedlings.- Effective Storage Conditions for Subsequent Growth Enhancement of Ficus Carica L. Cuttings.- Biotechnology for Transplant Production.- Characterization of Transformed Poplar Formed by the Inhibition of Peroxidase.- Micropropagation of Canadian Spruces (Picea SPP).- In Vitro Culture of Japanese Black Pine (Pinus Thunbergii).- Control of The Development of Somatic Embryo of Japanese Conifers By The Density of Embryogenic Cells in Liquid Culture.- A Preliminary Experiment on Photoautotrophic Micro-Propagation of Rhododendron.- Mass Clonal Propagation of Ararpus Heterophyllus Through in Vitro Culture.- Photoautotrophic Growth of Pleioblastus Pygmaea Plantlets in Vitro and Ex Vitro As Affected By Types of Supporting Material In Vitro.- Evolution of Culture Vessel for Micropropagation: From Test Tube To Culture Room.- Physiology of in Vitro Plantlets Grown Photoauto-Trophically.- Enhanced Growth of in Vitro Plants In Photoautotrophic Micropropagation With Natural and Forced Ventilation Systems.- Micropropagation of Ornamental Plants Using Bioreactor System.- Effects of Medium Sugar on Growth and Carbohydrate Status of Sweetpotato and Tomato Plantlets in Vitro.- Practical Sugar-Free Micropropagation System Using Large Vessels with Forced Ventilation.- Growth and Acclimatization of Chrysanthemum Plantlets Using Bioreactor and Hydroponic Culture Techniques.- Mass Propagation of Pineapple through in Vitro Culture.- Microbial Contamination under Photoautotrophic Culture System.