While the foundations for the colonization of humanity in space are quickly being laid, today there are people who can help. an extremely important development it happened. The lunar soil brought to Earth by astronauts who went to the moon and took soil samples during NASA’s Apollo missions managed to become a source of life for plants.

The work, which began in 2021 and led by space biologist and geneticist Anna Lisa Paul of the University of Florida, was successful. Scientists have lived in the lunar bottom, which has not allowed life for billions of years. managed to grow small plants† The research indicates that astronauts will be able to grow their own greenhouses on the moon in the future.

Nutrients for plants added to the soil:

According to the study published in Nature, the grounds used in the study were: On the Apollo 11, Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 missions acquired land. Scientists believe that these soils do not contain any minerals or ions, unlike the soils on our earth. add food and water created.

• From left to right Anna-Lisa Paul, Rob Ferl

After planting, the mouse-eared cherry plant (arabidopsis thalian) has successfully greened in the moon soil. On the other hand, the results of the study show that growing plants in moon soil it’s pretty heavy also showed. the plants in the moon soil slow to developa lot of stress morphology shown has been reported. However, all cultivated plants showed ionic stresses comparable to the response of plants in the soil to salt, metal and reactive oxygen.