Greenhouse: Comfort and Ambience for Horticulture Plants

Dear Colleagues,

Horticultural plant species are highly adaptable to various environmental conditions; however, it is vital that the plant environment in protected cultivation is studied in order to promote the best and highest productivity of these species.

This includes the time that the crop is installed in the protected environment throughout the year, the geographic location at which the crop is installed and its micrometeorological conditions, and the interactions between the protected environment and plant physiology. Together, these characteristics define the optimum environment and management plan for the horticultural species so that it is able to express its maximum productive potential, both in the seedling formation phase and in the production of the complete cycle.

Regarding the vegetal ambiance in protected environments, it is interesting to define the optimum environment and the best production system within that environment for a given horticultural species. In addition, it is crucial to identify the available technologies that act on the internal or external micrometeorological variables of the protected environment, understand how they improve the comfort conditions for the plants, and increase the productivity of the crops or the quality of the seedlings.

Therefore, it is important to study the type of protected environment, lighting, photosynthetically active radiation, production system, irrigation, nutrition, substrates, and containers, among others, to define the optimum comfort and ambiance for horticultural plants.

This Special Issue includes studies on the effect of different types of protected environments, on the various production systems within these environments, on the management of the environment and the production system, and on the methods used to control the protected environment, with the aim being to promote comfort and ambiance for horticulture.

Dr. Costa Edílson
Prof. Dr. Eduardo Pradi Vendruscolo
Guest Editors

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• types of protected environments;
• protected environment control;
• comfort of the protected environment;
• production system in the protected environment;
• indoor production technologies;
• protected environment lighting;
• types of hydroponics, substrates, containers, pot colors, and bench colors in the protected environment