Preface to the Special Issue'Current Technologies and Researches on Plant Factory and Intelligent Greenhouse'

摘要

The 1st International Workshop named as **2017 CIGR World Workshop in Matsuyama^ organized by Plant factory and intelligent greenhouse (PFIG) working group on the International Commission of Agricultural Engineering (CIGR, Commission Internationale du Génie Rural) was held at Ehime University in Japan (Date: 2nd-4th Sept. 2017). The most important objective of this workshop is to share the current situation on *4Innovative but feasible technologies for plant factory and intelligent greenhouseM. The workshop consisted of an international symposium of *4ICT on Plant factory and intelligent greenhouse”，three organized sessions (OS) and one general session (GS). In the international symposium chaired by Prof. Shimizu (Kyoto University), Prof. Onishi (Former President of Science Council of Japan) made the open-ing remark, and four lectures were provided, “Current and future topics on plant factory” by Prof. D. He (China Agricul-tural University，CN) and Prof. E. Goto (Chiba University, JP)，“How plants sense and respond to environmental cycles” by Prof. A. Dodd (University of Bristol, UK) and Prof. H. Fukuda (Osaka Prefecture University, JP), t4Daily plant data for intelligent environmental control in greenhouseM by Prof. E.V. Henten (Wageningen UR, NL) and Prof. k. Takayama (Ehime University，JP)，“Advanced management strategies of greenhouse using ICT，by Prof. Sun-Ok Chung (Chung-nam National University, Republic of Korea) and Prof. N. Noguchi (Hokkaido University, JP). And, Prof. S. Shibusawa (Tokyo University of Agricultural and Technology, JP) provide closing remark. The following sessions were OS1 “Precision measurement and modeling of dynamical plant information” chaired by Prof. H. Fukuda (Osaka Prefecture University，JP), OS2 “Plant biological information for greenhouse crop production，’ chaired by Prof. IC Takayama (Ehime University, JP), OS3 “Advanced agricultural food/bio-resource technology: Functional food, packaging, utilization” chaired by Assoc. Prof. N. Shimizu (Hokkaido University), and GS chaired by Dr. E. Baeza (Wageningen UR) and each session was composed of 4-5 lectures. The total attendance of this workshop reached 100 and was successfully closed.To share the contents of this workshop with the people who could not attend this workshop, we would like to organize the special issue of''Current Technologies and Researches on Plant Factory and Intelligent GreenhouseM in Journal of Environmental Control in Biology with a strong support of Editor-in-Chief Prof. H. Shimizu. We hope our activity make a good reference material and be of great use for the readers of this journal.