MIT’s ‘cyber-agriculture’ optimizes basil flavors – TechCrunch

The days when you could simply grow a basil plant from a seed by placing it on your windowsill and watering it regularly are gone — there’s no point now that machine learning-optimized hydroponic “cyber-agriculture” has produced a superior plant with more robust flavors. The future of pesto is here. This research didn’t come out of a desire to improve sauces, however. It’s a study from MIT’s