Root tropisms: investigations on earth and in space to unravel plant growth direction

LWF Muthert, LG Izzo, M Van Zanten… - Frontiers in plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Root tropisms are important responses of plants, allowing them to adapt their growth
direction. Research on plant tropisms is indispensable for future space programs that …

Recent transcriptomic studies to elucidate the plant adaptive response to spaceflight and to simulated space environments

A Manzano, E Carnero-Diaz, R Herranz, FJ Medina - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Discovering the adaptation mechanisms of plants to the space environment is essential for
supporting human space exploration. Transcriptomic analyses allow the identification of …

Arabidopsis telomerase takes off by uncoupling enzyme activity from telomere length maintenance in space

BB Barcenilla, AD Meyers, C Castillo-González… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Spaceflight-induced changes in astronaut telomeres have garnered significant attention in
recent years. While plants represent an essential component of future long-duration space …

Meta-analysis of the space flight and microgravity response of the Arabidopsis plant transcriptome

R Barker, CPS Kruse, C Johnson, A Saravia-Butler… - npj …, 2023 - nature.com
Spaceflight presents a multifaceted environment for plants, combining the effects on growth
of many stressors and factors including altered gravity, the influence of experiment …

Root Skewing-Associated Genes Impact the Spaceflight Response of Arabidopsis thaliana

B Califar, NJ Sng, A Zupanska, AL Paul… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The observation that plant roots skew in microgravity recently refuted the long-held
conviction that skewing was a gravity-dependent phenomenon. Further, spaceflight root …

Epigenomics in an extraterrestrial environment: organ-specific alteration of DNA methylation and gene expression elicited by spaceflight in Arabidopsis thaliana

M Zhou, NJ Sng, CE LeFrois, AL Paul, RJ Ferl - BMC genomics, 2019 - Springer
Background Plants adapted to diverse environments on Earth throughout their evolutionary
history, and developed mechanisms to thrive in a variety of terrestrial habitats. When plants …

RNAseq Analysis of the Response of Arabidopsis thaliana to Fractional Gravity Under Blue-Light Stimulation During Spaceflight

R Herranz, JP Vandenbrink, A Villacampa… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Traveling to nearby extraterrestrial objects having a reduced gravity level
(partial gravity) compared to Earth's gravity is becoming a realistic objective for space …

Test of Arabidopsis Space Transcriptome: A Discovery Environment to Explore Multiple Plant Biology Spaceflight Experiments

R Barker, J Lombardino, K Rasmussen… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Recent advances in the routine access to space along with increasing opportunities to
perform plant growth experiments on board the International Space Station have led to an …

-Omics studies of plant biology in spaceflight: A critical review of recent experiments

AM Hughes, JZ Kiss - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Researchers have been studying transcriptomic and proteomic responses of plants to
ranges of reduced gravitational conditions. These include blue and red light in microgravity …

HSFA2 functions in the physiological adaptation of undifferentiated plant cells to spaceflight

AK Zupanska, C LeFrois, RJ Ferl, AL Paul - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Heat Shock Factor A2 (HsfA2) is part of the Heat Shock Factor (HSF) network, and plays an
essential role beyond heat shock in environmental stress responses and cellular …