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A latest breakthrough in the LED revolution sweeping the horticultural industry.A team of scientists has cut the growing time of wheat by 50% by using LED lighting.
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Researchers from Australia and the UK grew wheat from seed to maturity in just eight weeks instead of the standard 16-week growing time for the cereal grown in spring.
The “speed-breeding” regime developed by teams at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK, in conjunction with the universities of Queensland and Sydney, uses a glasshouse with LEDs tuned to aid photosynthesis in wheat and illuminated for up to 22 hours a day.
The development means that, for the first time, it is possible to grow as many as six generations of wheat every year, a threefold increase on the shuttle-breeding techniques currently used by breeders and researchers. The success of the project is being compared to the post-World War Two shuttle-breeding innovations in cereal production.
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