The technology of artificial LED lighting (Light Emitting Diode) is gaining more and more ground inside greenhouses (especially in those with cultivation off the ground, because they are capable of a “return” faster than the relative investment).
To experimentally evaluate the goodness of LED lights in environmental conditions in Puglia, the Department of agro-environmental and territorial sciences (Disaat) of the University of Bari (research group of Professor Pietro Santamaria, professor of Horticulture), together with the Department of Plant Sciences, Horticulture and Product Physiology group (supervisor Prof. Ep Heuvelink), University of Wageningen (Netherlands) and F.lli Lapietra ss Agricultural Company of Monopoli (Ba), has started, under the national Operational Program Fse-Fesr Research and Innovation 2014-2020, Action I.1 “Innovative graduates with industrial characterization” – XXXIII Cycle – a.a. 2017/2018 – PhD Program “Biodiversity, Agriculture and the Environment”, the research topic “The application of LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) and the principle of the concentration of removals to improve the production of tomatoes in greenhouses”.
