Differences in taste in Basil might be linked to color
The taste of basil is affected strongly - so blue (the plants to the left has a strong terpentine taste), red (middle plant) has little taste, while the left broadband white has the normal basil taste
Symposium Greenhouse Horticulture on possible energy actions
05 September 2022The current energy issue is an all-important theme for our greenhouse growers. For this reason, the Interreg project 'Smartgreen' organized, in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture and Fishe…
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Network event LED light
24 November 2021On 17/09/21 a network event was held at the research station for ornamental plants in Destelbergen (Belgium). With the topic "LED and light in agri- and horticulture" the Flemish research expertise wa…
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Creating Data-Driven Ontologies An Agriculture Use Case
30 July 2020Combining various, heterogeneous data sources is a challenge, because data from different sources usually have different syntax and semantics. This also holds for the horticultural domain in which dat…
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PCS Ornamental Plant Research in Belgium invests in closed multilayer growing system
18 February 2020PCS Ornamental Plant Research helps growers to investigate how to grow in closed multilayer systems using LEDs. The first trials started in collaboration with some growers by the end of 2019.
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Aarhus University - Food recently moved into state of the art new greenhouses in AgrofoodPark near Aarhus.
18 February 2020Aarhus University moved the Department of Food Science from Foulum and Aarslev to Agro Food Park in Skejby in order strengthen interaction with the food sector. The move reflects the desire to strengt…
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Smartgreen presented results at the IPM in Essen
01 February 2019IPM ESSEN 2019 is one of the most important fairs for horticulture. During four days (January 22th - 25th) around 53 000 visitors came to the IPM fair to gather information about innovative trends an…
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Dianthus growers from the Netherlands visiting LED trials in Belgium at PCS Ornamental Plant Research
31 January 2019On January 29th 2019 a group of Dutch Dianthus growers came to visit the LED trials in Belgium at the PCS Ornamental Plant Research. Together with the Belgian grower colleagues they discussed the pro'…
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A lot of interest for the LED event
23 January 2019On the 7th december 2018 a LED event took place at the Proefcentrum voor Sierteelt in Belgium for the whole greenhouse sector. During this event growers were informed on what to expect from LED light …
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Research and demonstration of light technology in Norway.
05 December 2018In the new research greenhouse at NIBIO Særheim, currently effects of LED light as a supplement or replacement for traditional SON-T light is tested in a winter production of tomatoes. Climate is cont…
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