Proteins for a megacity

Food research in Singapore

At TUMCREATE, Hui Qi Yeo conducts postdoctoral research on new technologies in o
At TUMCREATE, Hui Qi Yeo conducts postdoctoral research on new technologies in order to produce protein-rich food for the high-tech metropolis Singapore.
The Southeast Asian city-state of Singapore wants to produce one third of the food it needs locally by 2030. Sounds ambitious? Researchers at TUM are helping make the dream come true.

Oliver Watkins opens the door to the growth chamber, an enclosed plant cabinet as high as a full-sized refrigerator. Inside the chamber, soy plants are growing, bathed in violet light, in orderly rows stacked on four levels, one on top of the other. "My colleagues can regulate the supply of light, water, and fertilizer independently and thus control how the plants grow. No additional pesticides are necessary," the chemist says on his tour through the laboratory in the CREATE Tower, a high-rise research complex in the southwest of Singapore. ...
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