Why grow plants in space? They can improve how we produce food and medicine on Earth
- Written by Troy Miller, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space, The University of Western Australia
ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space, CC BY-NDSometime in the 2040s, humans may well reach a new frontier – Mars. To get there, we’ll need sustainable sources of food, medicines and materials.
As researchers who work on engineering plants to produce such resources in space, we sometimes get asked: “why?”. With...
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