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Detection and Utilization of Biological Rhythms in Plant Factories

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Biological rhythms with a period of about 24 h, called “circadian rhythms,” are generated by the expressions of clock genes. In plants, circadian rhythms increase the growth rate through the daily coordination of photosynthesis and metabolism. Therefore, the detection and utilization of circadian rhythms is required to improve the plant production in plant factories. In this chapter, recently developed technologies based on circadian rhythms are described. Section 22.1 focuses on seedling diagnosis using the circadian rhythm of chlorophyll fluorescence (CF). Section 22.2 describes high-throughput growth prediction systems based on the circadian rhythm of CF. Section 22.3 provides examples of global analysis of acquired gene expression as biological information and methods for analyzing internal time (i.e., the phases of circadian rhythms) using that data. We describe how circadian rhythms can be observed by comprehensive analyses and the methods used for such analyses. Finally, Sect. 22.4 describes a basic theory for controlling circadian rhythms by environmental stimuli. Methods that enable basic control of circadian rhythms are important, as they are applicable to a variety of research questions and industrial problems.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, Japan

    Hirokazu Fukuda, Yusuke Tanigaki & Shogo Moriyuki

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Fukuda, H., Tanigaki, Y., Moriyuki, S. (2018). Detection and Utilization of Biological Rhythms in Plant Factories. In: Kozai, T. (eds) Smart Plant Factory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1065-2_22

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