Lighting Solutions
for the Seed Industry

Trusted by plant scientists and growers worldwide.

Lighting Optimized for Plant Breeding

Advanced Lighting
for Breeding Programs

Valoya is the leading provider of horticultural lighting solutions for plant and seed breeding companies as well as research institutions. With an extensive portfolio 
of spectra and form factors, our luminaires support every stage of the breeding process — from vegetative growth and flowering to tissue culture and propagation.

Proven Across a Wide
Range of Crops

Designed for a broad range of species, Valoya lighting is successfully applied in crops such as wheat, barley, oilseed rape, tomato, lettuce, pepper, maize, cotton, soy, 
and rice.

Standard Growth Cycle

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How Light Accelerates
the Plant Life Cycle

By adjusting spectrum composition, light intensity, and photoperiod, crop development can be accelerated. This allows breeding teams to shorten full life cycles, increase seed productivity, synchronize or manipulate flowering responses, and streamline multi-generation workflows.

Key Development Stages

Valoya lighting enables precise control of the key developmental stages of the plant life cycle

Standard Growth Cycle

Valoya provides a broad white spectrum optimized for crop science environments and high-intensity breeding workflows

Speed Breeding

Since 2012, Valoya has collaborated with leading global seed companies to advance methods that increase the number of crop generations achievable within a single year. With optimized light 
spectra, breeding cycles can be significantly accelerated — in many cases, doubling the number of annual generational turns.

Valoya’s optimized light spectra accelerate the shift from vegetative to generative growth, even in genotypes with diverse flowering responses. This shortens the life cycle and gets your plants flowering faster.

By speeding up growth cycles, Valoya lighting reduces the time needed to develop new varieties, increasing your annual genetic gain and enabling faster innovation.

Many crops can now achieve up to twice as many generations per year. More generations mean faster breeding progress without compromising plant health.

Accelerated flowering is maintained all the way to harvest, ensuring consistent crop timing and reliable production across diverse plant types.

Seeds produced under accelerated light conditions retain full viability and yield potential, supporting ongoing breeding cycles without loss of quality.

Key adult plant characteristics are retained even under speed-breeding conditions, allowing breeders to evaluate traits accurately and confidently.

Later-flowering genotypes respond strongly to Valoya’s speed breeding spectrum AP67, compressing phenological differences and promoting more uniform flowering across genetic material.

Fluorescent Replacement

Seamless Transition from Fluorescents to LED

Valoya offers spectra and form factors that ensure a smooth, risk-free transition from fluorescent to LED lighting across in-vitro, acclimatization, vernalization, and other fluorescent-based workflows.

Validated
Spectra

Daylight, general-growth, specialized spectra validated globally.

Energy-Efficient Performance

Energy-efficient, dimmable
luminaires with long lifetime.

Uniform Light Distribution

Stable, even illumination even in compact growth setups.

Lab-Ready
Design

Ideal for reach-in/walk-in chambers and tissue culture labs.

Lighting in Action

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