Growing horticultural crops under cover is a challenge, especially given current pressures to reliably produce high quality food locally with minimal environmental impact. Our UV-Sintec research project in UCC has now developed a lighting system that improves the nutritional value of our plant foods.
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Shining a light on healthier food
15 Nov 2022
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UVPlants 3rd Network Meeting
18 Nov 2019
The next Network meeting of the International Association of Plant UV Research (UV4Plants) will be held in Kiel, Germany, from 1 to 3 April 2020. The theme of the meeting will be “Plant responses to UV radiation – Diversity in time and space”.
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ICULTA 2020
16 Oct 2019
After a successful first conference, the second International Conference on UV LED Technologies & Applications (ICULTA) is now announced for 2020. The conference takes place from 26 to 29 April 2020 at the MELIÃ Hotel in Berlin. The call for oral and poster presentation abstracts is now open, and runs until 30 November 2019.
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Duckweed for Dinner?
13 Jun 2019
“The Telegraph” recently carried an interesting report by Anne Gulland about duckweed becoming a new superfood ...
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UV4Plants Workshop 2019 – report
17 Apr 2019
The workshop “UV-B and Climate Change; impacts on plants and vegetation” was held in Cork, Ireland, on 15 & 16 April 2019. The overarching aim of the workshop was to explore the interactive effects of UV-B and climate change parameters on plants and vegetation.
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UNEP-report on the effects of stratospheric ozone depletion published
06 Mar 2019
The latest UNEP-report on the effects of stratospheric ozone depletion has now been published.
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