The complex networks and signalling pathways that equip plants to cope with environmental challenges in terrestrial environments developed over evolutionary time. Exposing plants to novel environments presents...
Tag - microgravity
William Salter
Microgravity and chromosome damage
The Karyological Observations of Krikorian and O’Connor look at plant material from flights STS-2 and STS-3 of the Space Shuttle. STS-2, among other things, carried a payload of Helianthus annuus, sunflowers. STS...
Alun Salt
Use it or lose it, for a plant’s sense of gravity?
Gravitropism is the ability of a plant to turn in response to gravity. Roots have gravitropism, bending to turn down and stems negative gravitropism to turn up. But what happens if you remove a plant’s ability to...
30 years of Astrobotany in Annals of Botany
“In the newspapers I used to read about shuttles going up and down all the time, but it bothered me a little bit that I never saw in any scientific journal any results of anything that had ever come out of the...
