Meetings
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T.C. Jayalath, PhD student and technician in the lab, won the 2021 Controlled Environment graduate student competition at the 2021 ASHS meeting in Denver. His presentation focused on the concept of ‘carry-over DLI’, an idea developed in our lab that takes advantage of sunny days, by lowering the target daily light integral the day after…
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The 8th international symposium on lighting (LightSym 2016) was held from may 22-26 in East Lansing, MI. The horticultural physiological lab was well represented at the symposium. Shuyang Zhen presented her work on the importance of far-red light on the efficiency of light use in photosynthesis. Her work has shown that far-red light can increase…
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For the past two years we have been working hard on realizing an idea we had almost 10 years ago: Can we control photosynthesis of plants by measuring how quickly they photosynthesize and then adjust the light level in order to reach a specific rate. Turns out that the answer is: Yes, we can! Using…