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Newsroom - Purdue gets $4.88 million grant to study LED lighting of plants. A USDA grant will help Cary Mitchell study LED lighting use in greenhouses. (Purdue Agricultural Communication photo/Tom Campbell) Download image WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - U.S. Department of Agriculture representatives toured Purdue University greenhouses on Monday (Oct. 25) to get a preview of the work that will come from a $4.88 million grant for LED lighting research. Cary Mitchell, a professor of horticulture and project director for the grant, said Purdue researchers will collaborate with Rutgers University, the University of Arizona, Michigan State University and Orbital Technologies Corp. on the four-year project to improve and evaluate LED lighting for greenhouse use.
The goal is to increase greenhouse yields and decrease producers' energy costs. "The high-intensity discharge lamps used today are inefficient. USDA officials, including Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan, toured greenhouses with prototype LED lights like the ones that will be used in the research.