AbstractTemperature increases in plant reproductive organs such as anthers and stigmas could cause fertility impediments and thus produce sterile seeds under artificial lighting conditions without adequately controlled environments in closed plant growth facilities. There is a possibility such a situation could occur in Bioregenerative Life Support Systems under microgravity conditions in space because there will be little natural convective or thermal mixing. This study was conducted to determine the temperature of the plant reproductive organs as affected by illumination and air movement under normal gravitational forces on the earth and to make an estimation of the temperature increase in reproductive organs in closed plant growth facilities under microgravity in space. Thermal images of reproductive organs of rice and strawberry were captured using infrared thermography at air temperatures of 10–11°C. Compared to the air temperature, temperatures of petals, stigmas and anthers of strawberry increased by 24, 22 and 14°C, respectively, after 5min of lighting at an irradiance of 160Wm−2 from incandescent lamps. Temperatures of reproductive organs and leaves of strawberry were significantly higher than those of rice. The temperatures of petals, stigmas, anthers and leaves of strawberry decreased by 13, 12, 13 and 14°C, respectively, when the air velocity was increased from 0.1 to 1.0ms−1. These results show that air movement is necessary to reduce the temperatures of plant reproductive organs in plant growth facilities.


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    Title :

    Effects of lighting and air movement on temperatures in reproductive organs of plants in a closed plant growth facility


    Contributors:
    Kitaya, Y. (author) / Hirai, H. (author)

    Published in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 41 , 5 ; 763-767


    Publication date :

    2007-08-07


    Size :

    5 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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