Microgreens are edible young plants that have recently attracted interest because of their
color and flavor diversity, phytonutrient abundance, short growth cycle, and minimal space …

Long-term human space exploration missions require environmental control and closed Life
Support Systems (LSS) capable of producing and recycling resources, thus fulfilling all the …

Bioregenerative life-support systems for space have been investigated for 60 years, and
plants and other photosynthetic organisms are central to this concept for their ability to …

The metabolic diversity present in microbial communities enables cooperation toward
accomplishing more complex tasks than possible by a single organism. Members of a …

The soil‐gas diffusion is a primary driver of transport, reactions, emissions, and uptake of
vadose zone gases, including oxygen, greenhouse gases, fumigants, and spilled volatile …

In this perspectives paper, we identify major challenges for space crop production: altered
convection in the microgravity environment, scheduling and logistics, crew time and the …

While there have been numerous studies on the effects of microgravity on plant biology
since the beginning of the S pace A ge, our knowledge of the effects of reduced gravity (less …

This chapter covers the most representative and most widely applied media out of the
numerous existing substrates. In this chapter substrates are grouped into two categories of …

HIS paper describes key knowledge gaps in the growing of plants and the production of food
in space exploration environments. Development of closed ecological systems that utilize …

Cell cultures of the plant model organism Arabidopsis thaliana were exposed to partial-g
forces during parabolic flight and clinostat experiments (0.16 g, 0.38 g and 0.5 g were …