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 ...
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Scientists have grown chickpeas in simulated moon soil, offering a promising step toward farming on the lunar surface. Researchers mixed moon-like regolith with worm-produced compost and helpful fungi ...
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We could grow chickpeas on the moon, scientists say
We could grow chickpeas on the Moon, scientists say. New research simulated the lunar soil – technically known as regolith – and successfully grew a specific chickpea there, for the first time. The ...
The root of a chickpea plant grows in a lunar soil simulant mixture inside a climate-controlled growth chamber at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, U.S., in this handout image. Jessica ...
WASHINGTON — If the idea of lunar hummus seems far-fetched, think again. Scientists working to cultivate the field of extraterrestrial agriculture have grown chickpeas in dirt made mostly of simulated ...
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