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Re: botany question
# 15125 byForDutyAndHumanity IAmSpacebearAICDA on June 22, 2001, 4:57 p.m.
Member since 2022-08-22

I have a botany question maybe someone out there can
help.
Thinking about growing food in space, I remember
seeing this on so many science shows. The scientist
would take some plant cells, I think from leafs and
place them in this medium which would cause them to
grow like this green blob, no leaf, no roots almost
like undefined algae. Then they would do something and
roots or shoots would grow.
Does anyone know what this medium is? I figure it may
be cost effective to just grow certain veggies this
way and not use any soil at all and not have the root
and stem part to toss out.
thank You
Pete

# 15126 byMitchell E. James on June 24, 2001, 8:21 p.m.
Member since 2022-08-22

Random thought.
Anybody know of research done on plant growth using large centrifuges
(spinning buckets) for gravity greater than one earth gravity? I would
seem to me that this could be easily done though I don't know what one
would measure that could provide some indication of what the graph might
be like for less than one earth gravity.

Mitchell James
www.InnerTransit.org (Homebase for collaborative engineering)

# 15127 byprestonsmith@... on June 25, 2001, 9:07 a.m.
Member since 2022-08-22

its agar gelatin made from the seaweed Agar agar ! around 30$ a pound,