Abstract
The active regulation of the plant growth environment is a common method for optimizing plant yield and quality. In horticulture today, light quality control is carried out using photo-selective nets or membranes to improve the yield and quality of cultivated plants. In the present study, with natural light as the control (CK), we tested different photo-selective nets (white, WN; blue, BN; green, GN; yellow, YN; and red, RN) with 30% shade for characteristics of growth, development, quality, yield, photosynthesis, and chlorophyll fluorescence, considering the antioxidant system, as well as the influence of element absorption and transformation of green onion (Allium fistulosum L.) plants at different growth stages. We found that plants under BN and WN have greater height and fresh weight than those of plants under the other nets. Plants under the BN treatment had the highest quality, yield, photosynthetic pigment content, net photosynthetic rate, transpiration rate, and stomatal conductance, whereas the intercellular CO2 concentration was the highest in plants in the YN treatment. The photosynthesis noon break phenomenon was significantly lower in plants with covered photo-selective nets than in CK plants. NPQ was the highest in the YN treatment, and Fv/Fm, ΦPSII, and qP among the plants in the other treatments were different; from highest to lowest, they were as follows: BN > WN > CK > RN > GN > YN. The active oxygen content of green onion leaves in the BN treatment was significantly lower than that in the other treatments, and their key enzyme activity was significantly increased. BN also improved the absorption and transformation of elements in various organs of green onion.
Highlights
Light is an indispensable environmental factor in the life cycle of plants and is the main factor driving plant photosynthesis (Das, 2004)
The effects of global warming have already begun to have a significant impact on our environment, including an increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration, which may change the internal quality of vegetable products or lead to a decrease in photosynthesis rate (Bisbis et al, 2018)
We found that compared with CK, the actual shading level of WN, BN, GN, YN, and RN were 28, 32, 29, 31, and 30%, respectively (Table 1)
Summary
Light is an indispensable environmental factor in the life cycle of plants and is the main factor driving plant photosynthesis (Das, 2004). The effects of global warming have already begun to have a significant impact on our environment, including an increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration, which may change the internal quality of vegetable products or lead to a decrease in photosynthesis rate (Bisbis et al, 2018). The challenges brought upon by global warming include an increase in air temperature (AT) and solar radiation intensity (Hu et al, 2018). For this reason, active manipulation of the plant growth environment is often used to optimize plant yield and quality (Dueck et al, 2016). With the adjustment of industrial structure and the continuous development of facility agriculture, photo-selective nets or films have been increasingly used in crop greenhouse technology to control the quality and quantity of ambient light to improve the yield, quality, and phytochemical composition of cultivated plants and protect them against pests and physical damage (Nissim-Levi et al, 2014; Selahle et al, 2014; Carvalho et al, 2016; Abbasnia Zare et al, 2019)
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