Advanced guide to lighting a planted tank - Basics first
A guide to lighting basics for a planted aquarium
References:
1:15 Gross, Jeana (1991). Pigments in vegetables: chlorophylls and carotenoids. Van Nostrand Reinhold, ISBN 0442006578.
1:53 Erroneous charts that mis-interpret absorption spectra data can be found on sites such as
1:58 Biological Action Spectra by Holly L. Gorton St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Modified from (Moss & Loomis, 1952). (Haxo & Blinks, 1950). (McCree, 1972)
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2:36 Nishio, J.L. (2000). Why are higher plants green? Evolution of the higher plant photosynthetic pigment complement. Plant, Cell & Environment 23(6): 539–548.
Sun JD, Nishio JN, Vogelmann TC. 1998. Green light drives CO2 fixation deep within leaves. Plant and Cell Physiology 39, 1020–1026.
Terashima I, Fujita T, Inoue T, Chow WS, Oguchi R (2009) Green light drives leaf photosynthesis more efficiently than red light in strong white light: revisiting the enigmatic question of why leaves are green. Plant Cell Physiol 50: 684–697
Kim, HH et al. Green-light Supplementation for Enhanced Lettuce Growth under Red- and Blue-light-emitting Diodes. 2004. HortScience, 39(7):1617-1622.
Kevin R. Cope, Bruce Bugbee, On the importance of blue and green light in plant development and whole plant photosynthesis. UtahState university
2:55 McCree, K.J. (1972). The action spectrum, absorptance and quantum yield of photosynthesis in crop plants. . 9 : 191-216.
3:45 BML Led lighting website Spectrum simulator
7:04 CIE (1932). Commission internationale de l’Eclairage proceedings, 1931. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Smith, Thomas; Guild, John (1931–32). “The . colorimetric standards and their use“. Transactions of the Optical Society 33 (3): 73–134. doi:
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12:28 Spectrum charts taken from ADA website, GB website
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