There's some great research on using evolutionary computation to explore plant growing recipes (light strength, how long to leave the lights on, etc). In one experiment, researchers discovered that basil doesn't need to sleep - it grows best with 24 hours of light per day. Risto Miikkulainen shared the experiment on Lex Fridman's podcast: https://youtu.be/CY_LEa9xQtg?t=27m7s I believe this is the paper describing that experiment: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...