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Environmental Control for Plant Production in Space CELSS

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Plant Production in Closed Ecosystems

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Environmental control is expected to be a key technology for achieving plant production in a space CELSS because the environments are completely artificial and controllable. Plant production systems for space CELSS will be improvements to systems which are currently used in controlled environment agriculture and factory-like plant production. For plant production in space CELSS, air pressure, gas and light environments can be totally controlled independently from the outside conditions. The present paper focuses on these environmental factors in space CELSS which have unique features compared to those in current greenhouse production.

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  1. Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan

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  1. Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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  2. School of High-Technology for Human Welfare, Tokai University, Shizuoka, Japan

    M. Hayashi

  3. National Research Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Ibaraki, Japan

    S. Sase

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Goto, E. (1997). Environmental Control for Plant Production in Space CELSS. In: Goto, E., Kurata, K., Hayashi, M., Sase, S. (eds) Plant Production in Closed Ecosystems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8889-8_17

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