{"id":948,"date":"2018-05-30T14:41:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T09:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=948"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:14:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:44:11","slug":"bacteria-coated-broccoli-seeds-off-to-space-to-grow-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/bacteria-coated-broccoli-seeds-off-to-space-to-grow-vegetables\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacteria-coated broccoli seeds off to space to grow vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>Astronauts may soon grow their own vegetables at the International Space Station (ISS) if bacteria coated broccoli seeds &#8211; sent to space- can survive in low-gravity environments.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft- unmanned cargo ship to space- took six broccoli seeds to space including three bacteria-coated broccoli. Scientists at the University of Washington used two species of bacteria that can live inside the plant and grow. These microbes- known as endophytes, helps the plant to sustain in low-gravity. It also helps plants to live in the areas lacking nutrients and water.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is the part of an <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a style=\"color: #008080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/bacteria-coated-broccoli-sent-to-space\/article24026862.ece?homepage=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">experiment<\/a><\/span> conducted by students of California&#8217;s Valley Christian High School to monitor how vegetables grow in the averse conditions of the space station without any fertiliser.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Earlier, microbes helped plants to tolerate drought and extreme conditions that provide nutrients to their plant partners. Scientists are hoping if their experiment can yield a success, it will also be beneficial in the moon or mars in future.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo ajU\">\n<div id=\":pc\" class=\"ajR\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Show trimmed content\" data-tooltip=\"Show trimmed content\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ajT\" src=\"https:\/\/ssl.gstatic.com\/ui\/v1\/icons\/mail\/images\/cleardot.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<div tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Show trimmed content\" data-tooltip=\"Show trimmed content\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronauts may soon grow vegetables at space<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}