Awards issued prior to january 20, 2025, were funded under previous administrations and may not reflect the priorities and policies of the current administration.** we are unaware of any research…

Awards issued prior to january 20, 2025, were funded under previous administrations and may not reflect the priorities and policies of the current administration.** we are unaware of any research collaborations, in which the three frontier technologies in this project (optical sensing, cold plasma, and advanced lighting) are being integrated synergistically. Each frontier technology is associated with a strong track record of being relevant to improved organic crop production, and preliminary data included in this proposal demonstrate our experience with each of them. Additionally, the transferability of project results into commercial crop production operations is considered very high as each frontier technology is commercialized by different companies. As examples, the following are some of the commercial companies, which offer cold plasma solutions to the agricultural sector: plasma waters (https://plasmawaters.COM/) and vital fluid (https://vitalfluid.COM/). On their website, vital fluid describes several on-going projects with organic growers, in which PAW is used as a fertilizer, particularly as a source of nitrogen for plants and in different pest management applications (mainly of fungal pathogens). Vital fluid and another commercial producer of cold plasma systems (WWW.plasmatreat.COM) have both provided strong letters of support to this proposal. Greenhouse lighting technologies are widely available and electric installations are often in place as supplemental lighting is a frequent practice in organic tomato production. As an example, CO-PD mattson is CO-lead of the greenhouse lighting and systems engineering (glase) consortium (https://glase.ORG/), in which research and testing of lighting systems is a major priority and is being conducted in close collaboration with manufacturers of lighting systems. We will develop and deliver technology-based solutions, in which three frontier technologies will be integrated and applied in several ways to organic tomato production.