Research on various effects of Using LED's as main light

[lilridgerider]

Ok here goes, first off I wasn't sure if i should post in this section or in-depth discussions section. Little background as to why I am posting this thread. I am a biochemistry and molecular biophysics student at a University. I am considering writing my own grants to start some in depth research into what I really love, reef-keeping! I have done some research on campus into various scientific publications to try and find some information on research already done, but so far either I am looking in the wrong places or their isn't any yet. So here is one area that I am considering thinking about going into some major research:

The effects of LED lights as primary light source on:
-Coral overall growth
-Coral's natural ability to heal after sickness/fragmentation
-Effects on symbiotic zooxanthallae feeding corals and their prevalence on/in the corals
-Effects on thylakoid's in the zooxanthallae
-Efficiency of thylakoids under LED vs. their efficiency under MH/T5HO/VHO/PC

Another area of interest for me is terpenoids that are released by soft corals overall effects/molecular effects on the entire reef system/hard corals.

So I guess what I am asking is does anyone know if any research has been done into these areas of interest for me? And, if so, could you point me in the right direction?

Thanks! I thought there were probably some other science buffs out here in reef sanctuary that might have some insight that my young mind may not.

 

[Shamus]

Nice to see another science geek here! Welcome to RS!

Did you try some searches on PubMed?

PubMed home

Perhaps the library has access to Biology Abstracts as well...

 

[lilridgerider]

thanks, been here for a little while. lol. and yea i did try PubMed not too many results. our school uses SciFinder Scholar, a program that you can search for a specific subject, author, publication etc. from thousands of different publications across the world. but i am not sure if there really is anything relevant to what it is I want to know. hmmmmm. could be using the wrong tag words but i don't think so.