Microgreens for home, commercial, and space farming: a comprehensive update of the most recent developments

Z Teng, Y Luo, DJ Pearlstein… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Current knowledge about the impact of microgravity on gene regulation

TJ Corydon, H Schulz, P Richter, SM Strauch… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Microgravity (µ g) has a massive impact on the health of space explorers. Microgravity
changes the proliferation, differentiation, and growth of cells. As crewed spaceflights into …

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 …

Understanding reduced gravity effects on early plant development before attempting life-support farming in the moon and mars

FJ Medina, A Manzano, A Villacampa… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Plants are a necessary component of any system of bioregenerative life-support for human
space exploration. For this purpose, plants must be capable of surviving and adapting to …

Biowaste recycling strategies for regenerative life support system: An overview

I Rai, A Ahirwar, A Rai, S Varjani, V Vinayak - … Energy Technologies and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Space missions are expanding their horizons towards green energy. At the same
time humans are expanding their invasion beyond the earth's orbit and envisage to have a …

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 …

Challenges and considerations for single-cell and spatially resolved transcriptomics sample collection during spaceflight

EG Overbey, S Das, H Cope, P Madrigal… - Cell reports …, 2022 - cell.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) and spatially resolved transcriptomics (SRT) have
experienced rapid development in recent years. The findings of spaceflight-based scRNA …

Conserved plant transcriptional responses to microgravity from two consecutive spaceflight experiments

ES Land, J Sheppard, CJ Doherty… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Understanding how plants adapt to the space environment is essential, as
plants will be a valuable component of long duration space missions. Several spaceflight …

Interaction of gravitropism and phototropism in roots of Brassica oleracea

LG Izzo, LE Romano, LWF Muthert, M Iovane… - Environmental and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Gravitropism and phototropism play a primary role in orienting root growth. Tropistic
responses of roots mediated by gravity and light have been extensively investigated, and a …

Space omics research in Europe: Contributions, geographical distribution and ESA member state funding schemes

CS Deane, J Borg, T Cahill, E Carnero-Diaz… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
The European research community, via European Space Agency (ESA) spaceflight
opportunities, has significantly contributed toward our current understanding of spaceflight …