Charles Melodi, Edwards Brianne, Ravishankar Eshwar, Calero John, Henry Reece, Rech Jeromy, Saravitz Carole, You Wei, Ade Harald, O'Connor Brendan, Sederoff Heike
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States.
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Organic and Carbon Electronics Laboratories, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States.
Front Plant Sci. 2023 Feb 13;14:1087707. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1087707. eCollection 2023.
The integration of semi-transparent organic solar cells (ST-OSCs) in greenhouses offers new agrivoltaic opportunities to meet the growing demands for sustainable food production. The tailored absorption/transmission spectra of ST-OSCs impacts the power generated as well as crop growth, development and responses to the biotic and abiotic environments. To characterize crop responses to ST-OSCs, we grew lettuce and tomato, traditional greenhouse crops, under three ST-OSC filters that create different light spectra. Lettuce yield and early tomato development are not negatively affected by the modified light environment. Our genomic analysis reveals that lettuce production exhibits beneficial traits involving nutrient content and nitrogen utilization while select ST-OSCs impact regulation of flowering initiation in tomato. These results suggest that ST-OSCs integrated into greenhouses are not only a promising technology for energy-neutral, sustainable and climate-change protected crop production, but can deliver benefits beyond energy considerations.
将半透明有机太阳能电池（ST-OSC）集成到温室中为满足可持续粮食生产不断增长的需求提供了新的农业光伏机会。ST-OSC定制的吸收/透射光谱会影响发电量以及作物的生长、发育以及对生物和非生物环境的反应。为了表征作物对ST-OSC的反应，我们在三种能产生不同光谱的ST-OSC滤光片下种植了生菜和番茄这两种传统温室作物。生菜产量和番茄早期发育并未受到改良光环境的负面影响。我们的基因组分析表明，生菜生产表现出涉及营养成分和氮利用的有益性状，而特定的ST-OSC会影响番茄开花起始的调控。这些结果表明，集成到温室中的ST-OSC不仅是实现能源中性、可持续和气候变化保护作物生产的一项有前景的技术，而且还能带来超越能源考虑的益处。
