More than just unveiling and lighting: Jointly building a laboratory to explore field solutions for light formulation in facility agriculture.

The unveiling was just the beginning; the real scientific verification only began after the light source was lit.
There is a common misconception in the industry that light formulation is simply equivalent to a set of parameter tables.
When choosing supplemental lighting, people are often most concerned about wattage, PPFD, and red-blue ratio. While these indicators are important, they implicitly assume that as long as an optimal set of parameters is found, changing the light source will guarantee a stable increase in yield. This is a deeply ingrained cognitive bias in the plant supplemental lighting industry.
Light formulations are highly crop-specific, and there is no universally applicable optimal solution. The same light intensity may meet the growth needs of tomato seedlings but may be ineffective for blueberry flower bud differentiation. No single set of spectral parameters can be adapted to all crops.
The effect of supplemental lighting is highly coupled with environmental factors within the facility. Changes in any of the following conditions—natural light background, temperature, CO₂ concentration, water and fertilizer management, and cultivation substrate—will alter the performance of the same light formulation. Discussing light formulation parameters in isolation from environmental conditions is like discussing fertilizer ratios without considering soil conditions.
The value assessment of light regulation must cover the entire crop growth cycle. Leaf color and stem diameter are only temporary indicators; the core indicators that producers are truly concerned with are fruit set rate, product quality, yield, market entry time, and energy consumption per unit of output.
LED supplemental lighting is the hardware carrier, but the core factor determining production effectiveness is the light formula. The reliability of a light formula can only be verified in a real greenhouse environment, based on actual crops and through trials throughout the entire growth cycle.

This is exactly Anhui Jinshengda Co., Ltd. The underlying logic of jointly building a laboratory with the Institute of Environmental Development, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences is that the cooperation is not about setting up a nameplate, but about building a closed-loop verification chain from light formula research and development to real-world application.
The first step: Planting Laboratory in Ma'anshan, Anhui
Focused light formulation initial screening. Parallel controls are set up under controlled conditions, with fixed crop, water, fertilizer, and temperature conditions, and only spectral variables are adjusted to quantify the differences between different treatments and screen candidate formulations with application potential.
The second link is the greenhouse at the Shunyi Research Base of the Institute of Environmental Development, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
Conduct large-scale real-world validation. Place the formulations obtained from the initial screening in real production scenarios and subject them to real-world conditions such as fluctuations in natural light, diurnal temperature variations, and changeable weather to verify the stability of the formulations in actual facility environments.
The third step: the accumulation of joint laboratory results.
Develop replicable technical solutions. Based on experimental data, refine the technical system and output practical and scalable plant light environment regulation solutions to support the development of relevant industry standards and solve the problem of reusing and promoting research results.
The three-layer system is not a unidirectional series, but a closed loop of iterative iteration. Problems exposed in field trials are fed back to the laboratory for disassembly and optimization; the iteratively updated new formula is then put into the greenhouse for real-world verification.
With the development of facility agriculture, supplemental lighting is no longer a question of "whether it is available" but rather "whether it is suitable".
Parameters can be printed on brochures, but light formulas can only be truly effective in the field. If a supplemental lighting company only lists parameters, it often means it lacks confidence in the stability of its light formula. The reason we are willing to place our products on national-level research platforms and conduct rigorous controlled trials and tests throughout the entire crop cycle is because we deeply understand that the answer to light formulas lies not in instrument readings, but in the crop's own growth response.
From Ma'anshan in Anhui to Shunyi in Beijing, from controlled laboratories to real-world greenhouses, we have only just taken the first step on this path of light formula verification.