Scientists Develop Rice That Can Grow and Survive on Mars: University of Arkansas Study

INSIDEN24.COM – The space industry continues to develop. Humanity’s current goal is to explore Planet Mars, a planet far beyond the moon.

Rice plants that might grow on Mars have been studied by planetary scientists and botanists at the University of Arkansas (U of A), and their findings have just been published.

Interestingly, the Planet Mars research team from the U of A System Agriculture Division which is working on this rice research includes a researcher from Indonesia.

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She is Yheni Dwiningsih, a plant science specialist in the Department of Plant, Soil and Environmental Sciences at the University of Alberta.

According to the website reasearchgate.net, Yheni’s work with Space Search is focused on molecular genetic studies of pathways involved in rice production attributes including water use efficiency and tolerance to abiotic stress, researched using “systems genetics” methodology.

Yheni is collaborating on rice research to create rice that can survive on Martian soil with Vibha Srivastava, a professor in the Department of Plant, Soil, and Environmental Sciences, and Dominic Dharwadker, an undergraduate student in the Honors College.

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The lead author is Abhilash Ramachandran, a planetary scientist, and the second author is Peter James Gann, a PhD candidate in cell and molecular biology.

At the recently held 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, interdisciplinary researchers from the University of Alberta presented their findings.

Rice Can Grow and Survive in Martian Regolith with Challenges That Can Be Overcome Through Controlling Stress Genes, according to the study abstract.

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The presence of perchlorate salts, which are found in the planet’s soil and are usually considered harmful to plants, is one of the main obstacles to plant growth on Mars.

By using rich soil from the Mojave Desert, known as the Mojave Mars Simulant (MMS), created by researchers from NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the team was able to mimic Martian regolith (soil).

2023-09-18 23:23:00
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