Data and R code for "Supplemental LED lighting improves plant growth without impeding parasitoid biological control of aphids in a tri-trophic greenhouse system"

This dataset appears in the article Fraser, J.L., Abram, P.K. &amp; Dorais, M. Supplemental LED lighting improves plant growth without impeding biological control of aphids with parasitoids in a tri-trophic greenhouse system. <i>J Pest Sci</i> (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-023-01703-8Young pepper plants were grown under one of three light treatments. Each treatment had 12 hours of broad-spectrum white LED light plus sunlight as a baseline day, with the LED light serving to compensate for low levels of natural light. After this 12 hours, the plants received either an additional six hours of broad-spectrum white LED light or six hours of red and blue LED light, for a total photoperiod of 18 hours, or no additional light as a control, for a total photoperiod of 12 hours. The plants were then exposed to the green peach aphid <i>Myzus persicae</i> with or without its parasitoid <i>Aphidius matricariae</i> for another two weeks under the same light treatments, or to no insects as a control. The plants were then destructively sampled, with their dry mass and other parameters measured, and the insect densities estimated from randomly selected leaves at different heights within the plants.