Light-emitting diodes, however, stop this phenomenon due to the ability to change and precisely adjust the wavelengths they emit. In the context of the current research study, plants read a small set of non-ionizing groups known as visible light. Body of Research: While vertical farming continues to gain popularity in developing regions, newer discoveries are emerging rapidly.
Shelving with four rows served as the main material for the base of the vertical farm. Each represented an experimental group to be determined based on the floor space of the racks themselves. The height of each plant is part of the main basis for determining the overall crop quality (Runkle, 2011).
After the tenth day and the twentieth day, each of the fifty plants involved were temporarily withdrawn from their settings to measure this particular category. Seeds in the first phase of germination require only the surface layer of the soil to be moist (Espoma, 2016). The current data were then used to find the mean height and number of leaves of all ten seedlings in each of the five groups.
The purpose of these questions is to establish a relationship between the setting used and the plant height and number of leaves of the tomato plant samples.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Finding the average of these two factors will give researchers an idea of the overall effectiveness of each treatment and will act as a complementary measure of said treatments. Overall, the analysis of variance table shows that the growth of the conventional group exceeded all living groups of vertical farms in the second control point. The value for Wilks' lambda in the multivariate table is 0.443, indicating that about half of the variance in plant height is explained by the use of different tomato growing settings.
Another important reference point is the average of plant height in each group, which was interpreted when answering the previous question. The researchers had also observed a similar small shift in the data from the second checkpoint. The Wilks' Lambda value of 0.103 for day groups suggests that roughly 90% of the variance in plant height for the vertical setups throughout the experiment can be explained by using a different color of LED.
Analysis of variance table of leaf number for vertical farm layouts (day 20) Source of variation SS df MS F P-value F crit. A Wilks lambda value of 0.114 for the day groups suggests that approximately 89% of the variance in leaf number across the experiment can be explained by the use of a different LED color. Based on the data from the twentieth day of the experiment, all living groups of vertical farms exceeded the conventional group in both variables.
The control group without a light source, despite being recorded with the greatest plant growth during the tenth day of the experiment, could not maintain a similar rate at the end of the twenty-day period. The question posed was answered with the statistical analysis of the raw data from the previous chapter. Other relevant studies have also indicated the importance of the ability of certain plants to absorb light.
This theory was witnessed by one of the researchers in the first checkpoint after noticing that the stems of the plants involved were long but were unable to stay upright. Consequently, it had promoted the greatest overall mean height at the end of the experiment. A recommendation for any similar future research would be to do a similar experiment but on a commercial scale and to do an economic study of this concept as it is one of the limiting factors for the growth of vertical farming into the mainstream right now .
As mentioned at the beginning of the paper, the researchers believe that vertical farming is not just a fad, but rather a necessary evolution of the farming sector to make it sustainable. However, vertical farming available on a mass scale will be one of the steps we need to take as a species to ensure our sustainable growth on this planet.
CONCLUSIONS
Apparently, the former was allowed to focus on the growing organs for obtaining light and absorbing more energy. As noted in the first chapter, both time constraints and the coronavirus pandemic prompted researchers to shelter experimental setups in their homes. Although significant findings were observed over the twenty-day period, it is not known whether these trends were sustained or diverged further.
The researchers give consent to future researchers to use this paper to research and experiment to verify and learn more information about LEDs and vertical farming. While the experiment was considered a success, the researchers still recommend any further research to consider the different colors in the electromagnetic spectrum to plants over a longer period of time.
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