2008 Volume 57 Issue 12 Pages 966-969
Farming is an environmental control technology. The environments of aerial part such as temperature, humidity, intensity of light, etc. have been well controlled, but the control of rhizosphere environments which give the more fatal impact to plants, is still difficult. This is because the background of soil is unknown. We introduce a new technology (Imec) which industrializes farming by substituting a functional polymeric membrane for unknown soil