October 16, 2023 - Space Biology research helps us understand the fundamentals of plant growth by examining the very building blocks of plant life down to the molecular level: transcriptomics, genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics.

July 24, 2024 - Researchers are exploring the idea by testing various crops and equipment to figure out how to do this without a lot of extra hardware or power. To date, NASA has grown a variety of plants, including lettuces, tomatoes, and radishes – and ...

July 26, 2023 - With this project, scientists study plant-microbial interactions to determine which kinds of microbes enhance plant growth. And they’ve discovered one, the fungus Cladosporium sphaerospermum.

Plants not only take in carbon dioxide and return oxygen, but they are exceptionally good at capturing harmful toxins from the air. NASA research has delved into how plants do this, and how to potentially use plants to provide clean air on long-duration space missions.

December 8, 2023 - Learn More about Plant Habitat-04 · The Biological Research in Canisters (BRIC) is a facility used to study the effects of space on organisms small enough to grow in petri dishes, such as yeast and microbes.

Wheeler and other colleagues are researching plant growth under different types of light, different CO2 concentrations and temperatures. The Lab is exploring various aspects of a bioregenerative life support system. Such research and technology development will be crucial to long-term habitation ...

December 1, 2025 - Since the release of the initial 1989 study, titled A study of interior landscape plants for indoor air pollution abatement: An Interim Report, further research has been done including a 1993 paper and 1996 book by B. C. Wolverton, the primary researcher on the original NASA study, that listed additional plants and focused on the removal of specific chemicals.

September 28, 2023 - A variety of red potatoes called Norland were grown in the Biomass Production Chamber inside Hangar L at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida during a research study in 1992. ... Many of the early potato crop studies were done at the University of Wisconsin, where Wheeler worked prior to coming to Kennedy. Plant scientists at Kennedy used these fundamental findings as a starting point for their studies, and in particular, a variety called Norland red potatoes, using a large plant chamber called the Biomass Plant Production Chamber.

August 12, 2024 - Growing Beyond Earth® (GBE) is a classroom-based citizen science project led by Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden that is designed to advance NASA research on growing plants in space.

May 22, 2023 - NASA announces the award of 7 grants or cooperative agreements for exciting new space biology research that will advance NASA’s understanding of how plants respond, acclimate and adapt to the space environment in support of human space exploration.

May 23, 2024 - In addition, scientists can investigate how plants respond to reduced gravity environments on the moon and Mars. This researcher’s guide provides information on the background for plant science research, summarizes previous research, including lessons learned, and provides information on ...

December 18, 2024 - Multiple studies of plants on the space station have tested a wide range of crops and methods for growing them. Researchers have successfully grown lettuces, Chinese cabbage, mustard greens, kale, tomatoes, radishes, and chile peppers in space.

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To help identify the right plants for a given indoor environment, Plant Drop Ltd. developed a Pollution Absorption System that describes the contaminant-absorbing efficacy of various houseplants. Using NASA-funded research into how different plants might be used to remove contaminants in spacecraft, the London-based plant and pot retailer chose to make the system open-source, sharing the information with everyone via its website.

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To this day, Wolverton’s design, which replaces a traditional septic system with water hyacinths, is still in use. His research then turned to using plants to improve air quality. In 1973, NASA scientists identified 107 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the air inside the Skylab space station.

August 16, 2013 - NASA's research with foliage houseplants during the past 10 years has produced a new concept in indoor air quality improvement. This new and exciting technology is quite simple. Both plant leaves and roots are utilized in removing trace levels of toxic vapors from inside tightly sealed buildings.

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February 17, 2025 - ... NASA’s Biological and Physical Sciences Division pioneers scientific discovery and enables exploration by using space environments to conduct investigations not possible on Earth.

April 21, 2025 - Advanced Plant EXperiment-12 (APEX-12) will test the hypothesis that induction of telomerase, a protein complex, activity in space protects plant DNA molecules from damage elicited by cellular stress evoked by the combined spaceflight stressors ...