Greenhouse horticulture : technology for optimal crop production / Cecilia Stanghellini, Bert van 't Ooster, Ep Heuvelink.

Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stanghellini, Cecilia (Author)
Ooster, Bert van't (Author)
Heuvelink, Ep (Author)
Language:English
Published: Wageningen, The Netherlands : Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2019.
Subjects:
Greenhouse management.
Greenhouse gardening.
Physical Description:315 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Crop as a production machine
  • Radiation, greenhouse cover and temperature
  • Properties of humid air and physics of air treatment
  • Ventilation and mass balance
  • Crop transpiration and humidity in greenhouses
  • Crop response to environmental factors
  • Heating in climate-controlled greenhouses
  • Cooling and dehumidification
  • Supplementary lighting
  • Carbon dioxide supply
  • Managing the shoot environmnent
  • Root zone management: how to limit emissions
  • Vertical farms
  • The future.