Growers with expertise and interest in plant lighting are also welcome to participate. Topics include lighting in greenhouses and vertical farms, manipulating light in the production of ornamental and specialty food crops, greenhouse glazing and covers, and opportunities and constraints with horticultural lighting. Twenty-five companies and organizations in horticultural crop production and plant lighting are sponsoring this event, and ten of them will have display booths during the symposium.
Participants from over 30 countries on 5 continents will be attending this event, which is held once every 3 to 5 years. The last two ISHS conferences on light in horticulture were held in Tsukuba, Japan in November 2009 and Wageningen, the Netherlands in October 2012. The upcoming symposium has four invited presentations:
- “Toward an optimal spectral quality for plant growth and development” by Bruce Bugbee, Utah State University (USA)
- “Plant growth control by light spectrum: Fact or fiction?” by Wim van Ieperen, Wageningen University (the Netherlands)
- “UV LEDs in horticulture: from biology to application” by Jason Wargent, Massey University (New Zealand)
- “Controlling plant growth, development and metabolism with commands from the electronic canopy” by Kevin Folta, University of Florida (USA)
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