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Glass or plastic sheathed structures are used to protect growing plants from environmental extremes and to increase the number of hours favorable for good plant growth and development. They range from small (2 × 3 m) glasshouses and large, high or low, multispan glasshouses covering many hectares to long (3–15 m), wide (6–60 m or more) plastic tunnels. The only environmental modification equipment may be automatic or hand-operated ventilation, or the environment may be partially or almost completely controlled by combinations of heaters, coolers and humidifiers. Light intensity and daylength may be increased by artificial light. Blackout sheets of various materials may be drawn over the plants diurnally to modify daylength during part of the plant’s development; transparent sheets may be suspended over the plants as extra insulation to economize on heating costs. The sheets may also increase humidity around the plants. The most sophisticated greenhouses may have complex controls, programd and regulated to optimize growing conditions and limit energy costs. Paradoxically greenhouse crops may suffer greater extremes of high temperature and low humidity than occur concurrently outdoors. Inevitably weather influences internal greenhouse environment and hence the performance of insect pathogens (Curtis, 1998). Figure 1 illustrates some greenhouse conditions.
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Burges, H.D. (2000). Techniques for Testing Microbials for Control of Arthropod Pests in Greenhouses. In: Lacey, L.A., Kaya, H.K. (eds) Field Manual of Techniques in Invertebrate Pathology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1547-8_22
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