Important Role of Air Convection for Plant Production in Space Farming

• Kitaya Yoshiaki

  Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan

• Hirai Hiroaki

  Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan

• Shibuya Toshio

  Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan

Abstract

The present paper aims to outline problems for growing healthy plants over a complete ontogenetic cycle in space farming. Possible effects of sub-gravity or microgravity conditions on suppression of plant growth and reproduction were summarized in a view of heat and gas exchanges between leaves and reproductive organs of plants and atmosphere. It is concluded that proper control of air movement would be essential to make the environmental variables uniform inside the plant canopy and to enhance the heat/gas exchange between plants and the ambient air and thus promote growth of healthy plants under microgravity conditions in space farming.

Journal

• Biological Sciences in Space

  Biological Sciences in Space 24 (3_4), 121-128, 2010

  Japanese Society for Biological Sciences in Space

Keywords

• heat convection
• leaf temperature
• microgravity
• photosynthesis
• reproductive organs
• space
• transpiration

Details

• CRID: 1390282679409757312
• NII Article ID: 130004450614
• NII Article ID: 10029277817
• NII Book ID: AN10164806
• DOI: 10.2187/bss.24.121
• ISSN: 1349967X
• ISSN: 09149201
• NDL BIB ID: 11177591
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I11177591
• Text Lang: en
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