Microbial applications for sustainable space exploration beyond low Earth orbit

AP Koehle, SL Brumwell, EP Seto, AM Lynch… - npj …, 2023 - nature.com
With the construction of the International Space Station, humans have been continuously
living and working in space for 22 years. Microbial studies in space and other extreme …

[HTML][HTML] SpaceHort: redesigning plants to support space exploration and on-earth sustainability

JC Mortimer, M Gilliham - Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Long term human Space exploration will require the growth of plants for food and
materials in Space.•This will require the design of optimised multi-purpose crops in tandem …

Plants grown in Apollo lunar regolith present stress-associated transcriptomes that inform prospects for lunar exploration

AL Paul, SM Elardo, R Ferl - Communications biology, 2022 - nature.com
The extent to which plants can enhance human life support on other worlds depends on the
ability of plants to thrive in extraterrestrial environments using in-situ resources. Using …

NASA GeneLab: interfaces for the exploration of space omics data

DC Berrios, J Galazka, K Grigorev… - Nucleic Acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The mission of NASA's GeneLab database (https://genelab. nasa. gov/) is to collect, curate,
and provide access to the genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic (so-called …

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 …

A new era for space life science: international standards for space omics processing

L Rutter, R Barker, D Bezdan, H Cope, SV Costes… - Patterns, 2020 - cell.com
Space agencies have announced plans for human missions to the Moon to prepare for
Mars. However, the space environment presents stressors that include radiation …

Epigenomic Regulators Elongator Complex Subunit 2 and Methyltransferase 1 Differentially Condition the Spaceflight Response in Arabidopsis

AL Paul, N Haveman, B Califar, RJ Ferl - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Plants subjected to the novel environment of spaceflight show transcriptomic
changes that resemble aspects of several terrestrial abiotic stress responses. Under …

Integrative transcriptomics and proteomics profiling of Arabidopsis thaliana elucidates novel mechanisms underlying spaceflight adaptation

GO Olanrewaju, NJ Haveman, MJ Naldrett… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Spaceflight presents a unique environment with complex stressors, including microgravity
and radiation, that can influence plant physiology at molecular levels. Combining …

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 …

Light has a principal role in the Arabidopsis transcriptomic response to the spaceflight environment

M Zhou, RJ Ferl, AL Paul - npj Microgravity, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Characterizing Arabidopsis Root Attractions (CARA) spaceflight experiment
provides comparative transcriptome analyses of plants grown in both light and dark …