DOI: 10.2144/btn-2024-0033 ISSN: 0736-6205

Extraterrestrial agriculture: plant cultivation in space

Beatrice Bowlby
  • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Biotechnology

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Researchers are using various techniques and technologies to study how plants grow in extraterrestrial conditions with the hopes of sustaining longer missions for exploring deep space as well as being able to one day cultivate crops on other planets.

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