It ain't fashion, if it ain't sustainable

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Cotton Production / Space Exploration

18 December 2023

3 minutes

Cotton cell samples, held by NASA astronaut and Expedition 66 Flight Engineer Kayla Barron, are pictured growing on a petri dish inside the Advanced Plant Habitat. The samples were grown and harvested for the Plant Habitat-05 space agriculture study that explores genetic expression in cotton cultures to learn more about the process of plant regeneration possibly improving crop production on Earth.

A TIC-TOC Moment: Cotton Grows Better in Space than on Earth

By decoding why cotton grows better in space than on Earth, a research team could well be writing a new chapter in farming, one that enhances our crops on the ground and in space.

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