LEDs Are Set to Revolutionize Greenhouse Farming (2014)

Re:LEDs Are Set to Revolutionize Greenhouse Farming (2014) by rezistik on Monday June 13, 2016 @05:53PM (#11898031)

Taste is a really difficult thing to optimize for due to the subjective nature. There are certainly specific chemicals that appear in really tasty food that can be analyzed and used to guide the breeding process but it's incredibly complicated.

Optimizing for anecdotal data is one of the things I'm working on, it's amazing the depth you need in selecting specific traits to breed into plants.

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Re:LEDs Are Set to Revolutionize Greenhouse Farming (2014) by bluthru on Monday June 13, 2016 @08:10PM (#11898825)

>Taste is a really difficult thing to optimize for due to the subjective nature.

No one tastes locally grown produce and thinks, "this is OK, but I really prefer the flavor of the produce that's genetically engineered to not bruise as easily in shipping."

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Re:LEDs Are Set to Revolutionize Greenhouse Farming (2014) by rezistik on Monday June 13, 2016 @10:24PM (#11899345)

Well yeah absolutely, I'm saying it's a qualitative trait as opposed to yield per acre which is quantitative.

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