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Abstract. Agricultural and biological engineering extends beyond terrestrial farming and plant research. Since the advent of the space age, there has been a desire to provide capabilities for plant growth in the unique environment of space, both to use reduced gravity as a new variable to elucidate plant physiological processes and to develop the foundation of plant-based regenerative life ...
May 1, 2021 · A review of past insights of space experiments with plants outlines basic space and gravity effects as well as gene expression. Efforts to grow plants in space gradually incorporated basic question on plant productivity, stress response and cultivation. The prospect of extended space missions as well as colonization of the Moon and Mars require ...
- Elizabeth Kordyum, Karl H. Hasenstein
- 2021
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May 18, 2023 · Plants are crucial to human existence. They provide a source of sustenance, nutrient recycling, atmospheric replenishment, water cycling, and physiological health for life on Earth as well as in space. The human spaceflight realm poses unique challenges for engineers who develop facilities to conduct plant experiments, grow crops, and design biology-based life support systems for off-Earth ...
Aug 21, 2023 · Early pioneering space experiments have demonstrated that plants are able to survive and grow in space, although morpho-physiological alterations were soon reported in crop species as lettuce and ...
- Veronica De Micco
Jul 7, 2016 · Abstract. The study of higher plant growth in space started in the 1950s both on the Russian and the American sides. The first experiments were intended to assess whether plants could grow outside Earth and to determine what differences there were between spaceflight-grown and Earth-grown plants.
- L. Poulet, J.-P. Fontaine, C.-G. Dussap
- 2016
Plants in space. The growth of plants in outer space has elicited much scientific interest. [1] In the late 20th and early 21st century, plants were often taken into space in low Earth orbit to be grown in a weightless but pressurized controlled environment, sometimes called space gardens. [1] In the context of human spaceflight, they can be ...
Growing plants in space. October 19 2023. Thale cress plants from the Plant Habitat-03 investigation just before a harvest. Credit: NASA. As NASA plans missions to the moon and Mars, a key factor ...
