Effects of light intensity and photoperiod on runner plant propagation of hydroponic strawberry transplants under LED lighting

Jianfeng Zheng, Dongxian He, Fang Ji

Abstract


Vegetative propagation of strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) in the plant factory with artificial lighting is considered as an effective approach to produce high-quality transplants. In this study, mother plants of ‘Benihoppe’ strawberry were grown hydroponically for 50 d under eight LED lighting treatments by combining four levels of light intensity (200, 250, 300 and 350 mol/(m2·s)) and two photoperiods (12 h/d and 16 h/d). Runner development, growth of runner plants, photon yield and energy yield in runners and runner plants were investigated to evaluate the strawberry propagation efficiency. Results indicated that length of runners decreased linearly with increasing daily light integral (DLI) under each photoperiod and was significantly shorter under photoperiod of 16 h/d. Runner elongation was inhibited by high DLI. Number of runners and runner plants formed by mother plants increased by 38.9% and 33.7%, when DLI increased from 8.6 to 11.5 mol/(m2·d), respectively; however, no further increase was observed when DLI was higher than 11.5 mol/(m2·d). Similar trends were found in crown diameter and biomass of primary and secondary runner plants. Negative impact of high DLI (20.2 mol/(m2·d)) on photosynthetic capacity of runner plants was observed as a decrease in leaf net photosynthetic rate, potential maximum photochemical efficiency of PSII, and chlorophyll content. Furthermore, photon yield and energy yield in runners and runner plants decreased significantly with increasing DLI. Therefore, DLI in a range of 11.5-17.3 mol/(m2·d) is beneficial to improve strawberry propagation efficiency and quality of runner plants, and 11.5 mol/(m2·d) is optimal for the strawberry propagation of runner plants in the LED plant factory because of the higher photon and energy yields.
Keywords: hydroponic strawberry, vegetative propagation, daily light integral, photon yield
DOI: 10.25165/j.ijabe.20191206.5265

Citation: Zheng J F, He D X, Ji F. Effects of light intensity and photoperiod on runner plant propagation of hydroponic strawberry transplants under LED lighting. Int J Agric & Biol Eng, 2019; 12(6): 26–31.

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hydroponic strawberry, vegetative propagation, daily light integral, photon yield

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