Abstract
Breeding of crops has aimed to improve grain yields, biomass, stress resistance as well as nutritional compositions and other commercial values. Plant factories with artificial lighting (PFALs) provide artificial environmental conditions customized for individual crop species. Light flux, light spectrum, photoperiod, moisture, carbon dioxide concentration and nutrient composition can be optimized and monitored overtime without being influenced by weather. Existing crop cultivars were however selected therefore more suited to the outdoor cultivation. The objective of this chapter is to review the developmental and physiological traits suited to needs of PFALs along with the conventional and emerging biotechnologies in crop breeding. Recent advances in molecular genetics and genomics bridged the knowledge gaps between genetic variations and phenotypic consequences in plants. The genetic information, integrated with a CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)/Cas9 (CRISPR-associated protein 9) genome-editing technique, enables crop breeding without labour intensive conventional screenings.
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Leong, R., Urano, D. (2018). Molecular Breeding for Plant Factory: Strategies and Technology. In: Kozai, T. (eds) Smart Plant Factory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1065-2_19
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