Greenhouse horticulture : Technology for optimal crop production, second edition / Cecilia Stanghellini, Bert Van 't Ooster, and Ep Heuvelink.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanghellini, Cecilia, author.

Heuvelink, Ep, author.

Ooster, Bert van't, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greenhouse gardening.

Greenhouse management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Other Title:

Technology for optimal crop production, second edition

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill | Wageningen Academic, 2024.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Greenhouse horticulture' is an easy-to-read textbook for all those interested in protected cultivation, from university students and teachers to professional advisers in the field and managers of horticultural companies. This book provides an integrated approach to crop growth and development and the technical aspects of greenhouse cultivation and climate management. It combines an analysis of the relationship between crop production and ambient climate with an explanation of the processes that determine the climate in a protected environment. With the ability to modify the environment comes the need for growers to strike a balance between the costs and benefits of technology. This book outlines the methods and gives several examples of how to make 'optimal' choices about technology. Sustainable management of shoot and root environment is discussed, as well as the pros and cons of vertical farming. The processes addressed in this book, like crop growth, energy balance and mass exchange, apply to any kind of greenhouse. Therefore, in spite of the word 'technology', this is not a book about high-tech greenhouses only.

Contents:

Chapters:

1: Introduction

2: Crop as a production machine

3: Radiation, greenhouse cover and temperature

4: Properties of humid air and physics of air treatment

5: Ventilation and mass balance

6: Crop transpiration and humidity in greenhouses

7: Crop response to environmental factors

8: Heating in climate-controlled greenhouses

9: Cooling and dehumidification

10: Supplementary lighting

11: Carbon dioxide supply

12: Managing the shoot environment

13: Root zone management: how to limit emissions

14: Vertical farms

15: The future.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Stanghellini, Cecilia Greenhouse Horticulture

ISBN:

9789004697041

OCLC:

1530374119

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004697041 DOI