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GREENHOUSE PLASTIC [8 records]

Record 1 2025-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant and Crop Production
CONT

Greenhouse production is the practice of growing plants, vegetables, flowers and herbs within an enclosed space under controlled environmental conditions. The structure usually made from glass or plastic protects the crop from the cold, heat, wind, rain, and pests, while allowing optimum growing conditions to maximise yields.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
CONT

La culture en serre, aussi appelée serriculture, consiste à faire pousser des végétaux à l'intérieur de constructions de verre ou de plastique, dotées d'un système d'irrigation, de chauffage et de ventilation. L'environnement y est contrôlé pour favoriser la croissance des fruits et des légumes.

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastic Materials
  • Roofs (Building Elements)
  • Waterproofing (Construction)
CONT

Types of Plastic Coverings... Polyvinyl chloride film has very high emissivity for long-wave radiation, which creates slightly higher air temperatures in the greenhouse at night. UV inhibitors can increase the life of the film. It is more expensive than polyethylene film and tends to accumulate dirt, which must be washed off in winter for better light transmission.

OBS

polyvinyl chloride film; PVC film: terms officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matières plastiques
  • Toitures (Éléments du bâtiment)
  • Étanchéité (Construction)
CONT

Feutre tendu vinyl [MD]. Feutre en laine de verre (fibres de verre, liées par une résine synthétique thermodurcissable) revêtu sur une face d'un complexe pare-vapeur contrecollé formé d'une grille de verre, d'une feuille d'aluminium et d'un film de polychlorure de vinyle apparent de couleur blanche. Épaisseurs des feutres : 50 et 120 mm.

OBS

pellicule de polychlorure de vinyle; pellicule de PVC : termes uniformisés par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-05-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Crop Protection
DEF

A crop grown under protective cover, e. g. in a greenhouse, under floating mulch or a plastic row cover.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Protection des végétaux
DEF

Culture réalisée sous abri avec, éventuellement, la fourniture de chaleur et d'éclairage artificiel.

OBS

p. ex. culture sous serre, sous tunnel plastique

OBS

La lutte contre le gel est un mode de protection largement utilisé en arboriculture. Les filets antigrêle constituent certainement la technique la plus efficace pour protéger des cultures fragiles contre la grêle. Dans certaines régions très ensoleillées on protège par des ombrages les jeunes semis de certaines plantes sensibles à ce stade à un excès de lumière solaire; ces ombrages peuvent être naturels ou artificiels. Les serres et autres abris permettent d'assurer une protection encore plus efficace : on a alors affaire à des cultures sous abri.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Protección de las plantas
DEF

Cultivo en que se modifica artificialmente el factor climático para obtener mejores rendimientos.

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Record 4 2011-01-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Crop Conservation and Storage
  • Plant and Crop Production
  • Horticulture
CONT

A new development in mulch technology is the wavelength-selective film. It provides much of the weed control benefit of black plastic mulch, but warms the soil more than does black mulch. Thermic films, such as the IR-303 Thermofilm, were originally developed as greenhouse covers. They are reputed to reduce maximum and increase minimum temperatures slightly more than standard polyethylene films. These thermic films may have a role as hoop-supported row covers(tunnels). In a preliminary trial in 1990, the combination of black mulch and tunnels of either Lutrasil or IR-303 Thermofilm produced greater early yield than either black film or wavelength-selective mulch films alone.

CONT

Weed control from herbicides applied before the mulch may break down in advance of crop maturity. An alternative to the clear mulch/herbicide system is the IRT or wavelength selective mulch system. IRT mulches provide similar soil warming to clear film, while controlling most weeds like black plastic.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conservation des récoltes
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
  • Horticulture

Spanish

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Record 5 2007-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastic Materials
  • Vegetable Crop Production
CONT

Greenhouse plastics affect tomato pollination by influencing bee activity and bee loss through the ventilation systems. There is a significant difference in bee loss among plastic types.... CT plastic, one of the less commonly used greenhouse plastics, experienced less bee loss than AT Duratherm, Patilux, and both AT Bee Poly and De Klerk together.... The likely explanation for these results is that under CT plastic, bees are less able to visually detect the open vents because of the relatively small contrast between the transmitted light and the light through the vents. Our spectrophotometry results... indicate that of the plastics tested, only CT plastic allows transmission of UV light. Because of this, fewer bees fly out of these greenhouses and die during the winter months.

OBS

Greenhouse tomatoes and pollination by bumblebees. ... Bumble bee keeping in greenhouses has encountered some problems because of the escape of the bees ... through open vents in late winter and early spring. ... New understandings in insect colour vision (Backhaus 1993) have suggested ways by which the visual target of the open vents (daylight with UV) ... versus the greenhouse roof and walls (attenuated UV) can be disguised by coloured transparent flaps or blocked by screening so that the bees are not attracted and can not escape. The former would be easier and cheaper. UV light encourages the germination of spores of grey mould (Botrytis), so UV opaque plastics are favoured.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matières plastiques
  • Production légumière
CONT

Plastique de serre : contribution des matériaux plastiques à la maîtrise du microclimat.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Materiales plásticos
  • Producción hortícola
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Record 6 2003-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastic Materials
  • Optics
  • Beekeeping
  • Vegetable Crop Production
CONT

Greenhouse plastics effect tomato pollination by influencing bee activity and bee loss through the ventilation systems. There is a significant difference in bee loss among plastic types.... CT plastic, one of the less commonly used greenhouse plastics, experienced less bee loss than AT Duratherm, Patilux, and both AT Bee Poly and De Klerk together.... The likely explanation for these results is that under CT plastic, bees are less able to visually detect the open vents because of the relatively small contrast between the transmitted light and the light through the vents. Our spectrophotometry results... indicate that of the plastics tested, only CT plastic allows transmission of UV light. Because of this, fewer bees fly out of these greenhouses and die during the winter months.

OBS

Greenhouse tomatoes and pollination by bumblebees. ... Bumble bee keeping in greenhouses has encountered some problems because of the escape of the bees ... through open vents in late winter and early spring. ... New understandings in insect colour vision (Backhaus 1993) have suggested ways by which the visual target of the open vents (daylight with UV) ... versus the greenhouse roof and walls (attenuated UV) can be disguised by coloured transparent flaps or blocked by screening so that the bees are not attracted and can not escape. The former would be easier and cheaper. UV light encourages the germination of spores of grey mould (Botrytis), so UV opaque plastics are favoured.

Key term(s)
  • colored transparent plastic

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matières plastiques
  • Optique
  • Élevage des abeilles
  • Production légumière

Spanish

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Record 7 2001-10-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cultural Practices (Agriculture)
  • Crop Protection
OBS

Plastic transparent film, stretched taut on light wooden framework, gives a remarkably cheap greenhouse structure, though it usually needs anchoring against strong winds.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Soin des cultures (Agriculture)
  • Protection des végétaux
DEF

Feuille en matière plastique d'une épaisseur inférieure ou égale à 0,5 millimètre très utilisée en agriculture.

OBS

Elle peut être employée pour assurer l'étanchéité de réservoirs d'eau pour l'irrigation, pour remplacer le verre dans la construction d'abris, de serres légères, de tunnels et pour couvrir le sol comme équivalent d'un paillage. Selon les usages, on utilise des films transparents ou opacifiés par du carbone [...]

OBS

[Lorsque le film plastique est] soutenue par des arceaux métalliques, comme élément de protection des plants, l'ensemble constitue alors un tunnel plastique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cuidado de los cultivos (Agricultura)
  • Protección de las plantas
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Record 8 1980-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Thermodynamics
OBS

Greenhouse effect(...) The transparent glass or plastic walls and roof of the greenhouse transmit the shorter wavelength, visible light and infrared radiation from the sun but not the longer wavelengths. Thus, during the hours of daylight infrared radiation passes into the greenhouse and warms its atmosphere and the ground on which the house stands. The transparent walls and roof of the greenhouse partly reflect and partly absorb the longer wavelength radiation. Subsequently the walls and roofs re-emit the absorbed radiation into the house. Coating the glass with a non-heat-radiating film, which is transparent to sunlight, further maximizes the heating effect of radiation received.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Thermodynamique
DEF

Effet de serre dans lequel la face interne de la couverture transparente a été rendue réfléchissante (par traitement) au rayonnement infrarouge de grande longueur d'onde émis par l'absorbeur.

Spanish

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