Effect of Spectral Ranges on Growth and Yield in Vertical Hydroponic-Aeroponic Hybrid Grow Systems for Radishes and Turnips
Bibliographic record
Abstract
As climate change destabilizes food crop production there is a growing interest in controlled environment agriculture (CEA). Although light-emitting diodes (LED) have made CEA economic for some high value crops when coupled to agrivoltaics (solar photovoltaics + agriculture), it has generally not been used for root vegetables. This is the first study to demonstrate radishes and turnips could be successfully grown in an agrivoltaic agrotunnel using both lighting and grow walls optimized for lettuce growth. As reductions in LED energy use is important for this type of CEA to minimize capital costs for solar, this study investigated three lighting treatments (red (620-700nm), white (425-650nm), and full spectrum (425-750nm)). The normalized yields showed that both cultivars preferred red light and harvested green leaves provided higher crop masses than the roots, although turnips appeared to be far more adaptable to vertical growth than radishes. The results here show promise for providing true net zero carbon emission root vegetables year round in northern climates with agrivoltaics agrotunnel or similar solar-powered CEA. Future work is needed to optimize the grow walls with larger ports to allow hybrid aeroponic-hydroponic growth of these root crops as well as further work with light intensity trials to optimize light recipes.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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