Wheat Space Odyssey: "From Seed to Seed". Kernel Morphology.

ABSTRACT: The long-term autonomous existence of man in extraterrestrial conditions is associated with the need to cultivate plants-the only affordable and effective means for both providing oxygen and CO2 utilization, and providing one of the most habitual and energetically valuable products: plant food. In this study, we analyzed the results of the space odyssey of wheat and compared the morphological features of parental grains harvested from soil grown wheat plants, the grains obtained from plants grown in a specialized device for plant cultivation-the "Lada" space greenhouses during space flight in the ISS, and the grains obtained from plants in the same device on Earth. The seeds obtained under various conditions were studied using scanning electron microscopy. We studied the mutual location of

SUBMITTER: Baranova EN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6958380 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature