Plant Production in Closed Ecosystems

• Food Production in Greenhouses.- Controlled Flowering of Herbaceous Perennial Plants.- Greenhouse Thermal Environment and Light Control.- The Present Status and Future Outlook of the Use of Natural Enemies and Pollinators in Protected Crops.- R&D Research/Demonstration Greenhouse using Methane Gas from a Landfill for Co-generation.- Nutrient Management in Closed Growing Systems for Greenhouse Production.- Monitoring and Control of Water and Nutrient Supply in Closed Growing Systems.- Recent Advances in Photoselective Films with Interference Effects.- Greenhouse Technology for Saving the Earth in the 21st Century.- Recent Advances in Environment Control in Micropropagation.- Automation and Systems Analysis.- Food Production in Space: Challenges and Perspectives.- Concepts, Components, and Controls for a CELSS.- Gas Turnover and Gas Conditions in Hermetically Closed Plant Production Systems.- CELSS Research: Interaction between Space and Terrestrial Approaches in Plant Science.- Biosphere 2: A Closed Bioregenerative Life Support System, An Analog for Long Duration Space Missions.- Environmental Control for Plant Production in Space CELSS.- Optimal Structure of Plant Conveyor for Human Life Support in a Closed Ecosystem “BIOS-3”.- Growth Monitoring of Green Vegetables Cultured in a Centrifuge Phytotron.- Closed Plant Experiment Facility (CPEF) in Closed Ecology Experiment Facilities (CEEF) and Preliminary Studies on CPEF Operation.

'The book succesfully combines plant physiology, physics, chemistry, engineering and computer science into a high-tech horticulture and first of all it can be recommended for agronomists and horticulturists, but is also of great use for plant physiologists' Journal of Plant Physiology, 153 (1998)