METHOD FOR PROMOTING DE-ETIOLATION OR GREENING OF PLANT, AND APPARATUS FOR PROMOTING DE-ETIOLATION OR GREENING OF PLANT

• Main Authors: YAMAMOTO YASUHISA, MASAGO HIROAKI, KONO TOMOKANE, MORITAKA KIYOSHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 21.11.2013
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, RICE, FRUIT, VINES, HOPSOR SEAWEED; FISHING; FORESTRY; HORTICULTURE; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; TRAPPING; WATERING

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for promoting de-etiolation or greening of a plant that can efficiently stimulate the biosynthesis or the like of pigment compositions in a plant etiolated or in the process of being greened, and an apparatus for promoting de-etiolation or greening of a plant.SOLUTION: A method for promoting de-etiolation or greening of a plant includes applying a light component having at least one, as a main component, selected from light in the ultraviolet range, light in the visible range sandwiched between the B band and the Q band that are absorption wavelengths of chlorophyll, and light in the far-infrared range, as an artificial light source, to at least one plant selected from a plant, plant tissue, and a plant cell etiolated or in the process of being greened.