activity - Thu, 08/03/2018 - 19:40

Research on how plants respond and grow towards light in weightlessness/lunar/martian levels

The Tropi experiments studied how Arabidopsis plants respond and grow towards light in weightlessness, as well as at lunar and martian levels. An unexpected finding was that the response to red and blue light was different under simulated Moon and Mars conditions. Further experiments are under way.

Organization:
ESA
Directorate:
HRE
Keywords:
Agriculture
Crops
Plant biology
Regions:
Global
Type:
Experiment