TY - JOUR T1 - White LED Lighting for Plants JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/215095 SP - 215095 AU - Sharakshane, Anton Y1 - 2017/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/11/07/215095.abstract N2 - The highest intensity of photosynthesis is obtained under red light, but plants die or their growth gets disrupted if only red light is used. For example, Korean researchers [1] have shown that under pure red light the amount of the grown lettuce is greater than under a combination of red and blue light, but the leaves have a significantly smaller amount of chlorophyll, polyphenols and antioxidants. And the researchers at the Faculty of Biology of the Moscow State University [2] have found that the synthesis of sugars is reduced, growth is inhibited and no blossoming occurs in the leaves of Chinese cabbage under narrow-band red and blue light (as compared to a sodium lamp).What kind of lighting is needed to get a fully developed, large, fragrant and tasty plant with moderate energy consumption? ER -