Claim · model-written summary
Lighting increase was associated with a 35% reduction in evapotranspiration per unit of biomass.
- Taxon
- Cannabis sativa
Cannabis sativat0 - Treatment
- lightinge4
- Outcome
- evapotranspiratione4
- Direction
- reductione4
- Value
- 35%e4
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Verbatim
t0“Supplemental greenhouse lighting increased the water use efficiency, crop growth, and cutting production in Cannabis sativa”
e4“water requirements per unit of plant biomass decreased from 0.37 to 0.24 liters per gram when lighting increased from ~18 to 52 mol m -2 d -1 , marking a 35% reduction in evapotranspiration”
Title
Cristian E. Collado; Seung Jae Hwang; Ricardo Hernández Frontiers in Plant Science 2024. doi:10.3389/fpls.2024.1371702
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Association Increasing light levels linearly increased biomass, at 0.26 g per mole of additional light.
- Association Increasing light levels linearly increased leaf area, at 32.5 cm2 per mole of additional light.
- Association Increasing light levels linearly increased the number of branches per plant and square meter, at 0.41 branches per mole of additional light.
- Intervention effect Crop WUE improved by 1.6-fold when comparing the lowest and highest light treatments.
- Intervention effect Crop evapotranspiration increased 1.8-fold with the increase in light intensity.
- Intervention effect Water requirements per unit of plant biomass decreased with lighting increased from about 18 to 52 mol m -2 d -1.
- Association Leaf photosynthesis and WUE increased with light enhancement.
- Observation Supplemental lighting up to 52 mol m -2 d -1 did not saturate any crop response to light.
- Recommendation Supplemental lighting of this level can be economically viable for cannabis nurseries.