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Day 4, June 25(Wed.) 14:40-14:55
Room B (Maesato Center)
- 4B-O2-1440
Monitoring Indoor Farming Growth Conditions Using Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry (DART-MS)
(NUS)
oQifeng Lin, Norman Zhi Wei Teo, Xin Shan Lim, Qingsong Lin
The indoor farming system is an attractive and space-efficient solution for edible crop production in land-scarce countries such as Singapore. There is therefore increasing interest in developing innovative technologies for monitoring production and growth processes in order to maximize productivity in indoor farms. With the capability for rapid and high throughput analysis under ambient conditions, the Direct Analysis in Real Time mass spectrometry (DART-MS) technology presents an attractive approach for at-line monitoring of indoor farming processes. Here, we explore the application of DART-MS to analyze indoor farming agriculture produce. We develop a simple and reproducible DART-MS workflow to analyze different vegetable tissues (e.g. leaf, shoot apical meristems) in a high throughput manner. We observe unique molecular profiles from vegetable samples grown under different light conditions. Further analysis is in progress to investigate if these profiles could be molecular signatures of plant growth, nutrition and health status.