BeNeLuxSHS 2015 Symposium: Plant control by LED light

Annual Symposium: Thursday 15 October, 2015
Forum building, Droevendaalsesteeg 2, Wageningen, The Netherlands

LEDs provide exciting new possibilities to modulate spectrum and direction of light, to control instantaneously light intensity, and to decouple lighting from heating. This allows not only to control growth, development and yield of plants, but also to control quality, disease resistance and last but not least to save energy.

Several growers have already installed LEDs in their greenhouses and it is assumed that the coming years the use of LEDs in greenhouses will increase exponentially. Different forms of city farming such as  plant factories or vertical farming attract a lot of attention. Many city farm initiatives pop up around the world. All these systems have in common that they want a full control of the production of horticultural crops by the use of LED lighting.

The 2015 annual symposium of the Benelux Society for Horticultural Science will include presentations from several researchers active in the Benelux. They will present the latest insights on control of plant production by LED light. There will also be an extensive discussion on city farm and the use of LEDs therein.

This symposium is open to everyone who is interested in the use of LED lighting for production of plants in horticulture. We expect that a nice mix of researchers, advisors  and private companies will participate.

The symposium is organised by Wageningen University (Chair Group Horticulture and Product Physiology) and the Campus of Wageningen UR is the location for this meeting.
We expect many people to participate, while the number of symposium participants has limits. So don’t wait too long with registration. The registration fee is 30 euro for students and members of BeNeLux SHS; for others the fee is 45 euro. Lunch is included in the fee.

Programme

  • 9:00 Registration (coffee or tea)
  • 10:00 Opening
  • 10:10 Ronald Pierik (Utrecht University); Plant growth at high densities: how light signals control plant architecture.
  • 10:40 Tom van Delm (PCH, Research Centre Hoogstraten); LED lighting in strawberry
  • 11:10 Wim van Ieperen (Wageningen University); Light beyond the comfort zone of plants
  • 11:40 Pavlos Kalaitzoglou (Wageningen University); Response of growth and development of tomato plants to red, blue and far-red light
  • 12:10 Lunch
  • 13:15 Ellen de Keyser (ILVO, Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research); Different shades of colour painted by light quality variations
  • 13:45 Nikos Ntagkas (Wageningen University); LED lighting improves the vitamin C content of tomato fruit
  • 14.15 Marie-Christine van Labeke (Ghent University); Tailored light quality systems for young plants – case study pot chrysanthemum
  • 14.45 Coffee/tea
  • 15.10 Tom Dueck (Wageningen UR Greenhouse Horticulture); Spectral opportunities to improve plant growth and quality
  • 15:40 Panel discussion about city farming with: Meiny Prins (CEO, Priva); Gus van der Feltz (Global director city farming, Philips Horticulture); Marc Kreuger  (Technical Lead PlantLab Program, Syngenta Seeds)
  • 16.30 Drinks, snacks

Contact: Leo Marcelis (leo.marcelis@wur.nl); convener of the symposium and head of the chair group Horticulture and Product Physiology at Wageningen university

Download the Registration form here and  return this form not later than September 30, 2015 October 9, 2015 to the convener at leo.marcelis@wur.nl

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