Valoya LEDs used in response study with mother plants and daughter ramets
An ongoing research project simulates conditions in forest understories in a greenhouse and examines how plants response to differences in the light they perceive. Varying amounts of blue light, and red to far-red ratio (R:FR), in Valoya LED lights are coupled with UV-B radiation. These varying light environments are used to study responses in strawberries, more specifically responses between mother plants and their daughter ramets. Light-induced signalling is examined by keeping the interconnected mother-daughter in different light conditions, e.g., the mother plant under Valoya light + UV-B tubes and the ramet under Valoya light without UV-B radiation. Plant hormones and other signalling chemicals are then measured and analyzed by an expert in biophysics and biochemistry, PhD student Jakub Nezval from University of Ostrava, Czech Republic.