Greenhouse crops: A review

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Concerns over increasing production costs and decline in crop revenues have prompted the greenhouse industry to reevaluate criteria used to select crops for greenhouse systems. In the past, crop selection was primarily based on profitability and the strategy was to manipulate the environment to tailor it to the requirements of the crop. As greenhouses are currently evolving from high energy‐consuming to cost‐efficient systems, an emerging strategy is to manipulate the crop to meet the characteristics of the greenhouse environment. To ensure efficient crop manipulation, however, an in‐depth understanding is needed of the inherent ability of crops to adapt and render economic yields under suboptimal conditions. This paper reviews key features of selected greenhouse crops, assesses the impact of changing environment on crop performance, and examines potential avenues for crop manipulation.