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...
Tag - STS-3
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...
Calibrating data in a weightless environment
A Test to Verify the Biocompatibility of a Method for Plant Culture in a Microgravity Environment by Brown and Chapman is an example of the basic science people needed to do with the shuttle. If you’re going 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...
