Homegrown chickpeas could be on the menu for future astronauts. With help from compost and symbiotic fungi, chickpea plants grow and produce seeds in simulated lunar dirt, researchers report March 5 in Scientific Reports.
“I’m obsessed with the plant,” says fluid dynamicist Sara Oliveira Santos of the University of Texas at Austin. “The fact that we’re able to bring these add-ons and help the plant get to such a stage that it produces seed, I think is really important.”
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