Cary A. Mitchell; Qingwu Meng and Erik S. Runkle
Cary A. Mitchell, Director, SCRI Project for Developing LED Lighting Technologies and Practices for Sustainable Specialty-Crop Production & Professor, Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture, Purdue University
Qingwu (William) Meng is a Ph.D. student and Erik Runkle (runkleer@msu.edu) is a professor and floriculture extension specialist in the Department of Horticulture at Michigan State University. They thank the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s Specialty Crop Research Initiative and MSU’s Project GREEEN for funding this research, C. Raker & Sons and Syngenta Flowers for donating plant material and Nate DuRussel for technical assistance.
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