Sunlight has diverse spectrum but LED lighting is limited. Are there other sources of artificial lighting that complete the full sunlight spectrum including Ultraviolet and Infrared? What minerals correlate to the different spectrum that can be integrated into artificial light to encompass FULL SPECTRUM ARTIFICIAL SUNLIGHT? Grow lights have been around for decades but now that artificial lighting is being used to augment or replace sunlight in farming have people started researching if a single light source can mimic sunlight?
Growth is linked to photosynthesis which neither needs infrared nor UV light, and, actually, only the red and blue part of the visible spectrum - this is why leaves are green and not black. So what would you need the UV and the IR part of the spectrum for?
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