Speed Breeding is a new and Innovative approach which refers to faster growing of crops with the objective of decreasing the time of seed-to-seed cycle thus enabling cultivars to have more crop cycles in a year. This method involves optimizing the photoperiodic conditions, temperature and humidity requirements of crops grown in controlled polyhouses.
This technique requires growing plants under High PPFD lighting often supplemented (with Sunlight) or completely managed by grow lights and increasing the photoperiods to as high as 22hours in certain crops thus delivering much higher DLI values compared to conventional growing practices. This allows plants to photosynthesize for longer, resulting in faster growth. With certain experiments performed, it has been found that four to six generations of wheat plants can be grown per year instead of two generations under normal growth conditions.
High PPF efficiency(>3.5umol/J) and optimized light spectrum offered by Fluortronix Grow Lights makes them perfectly suitable for speed breeding applications.
1. Rice : Phase 1 > Done>
Phase 2 . Ongoing.
2. Okra : Phase 1 > Ongoing
3. Soybean : Phase 1 > Ongoing
