USA, Mar 27: Space is a very challenging and stressfull place to grow plants and we know that our astronauts are trying their best practices known in space farming in the International Space Station (ISS). Eight locations were constantly surveyed and four strains of rod shaped bacteria belonging to family Methylobacteriaceae have been discovered. In that the first one was identified as Methylorubrum rhodesianum and the rest were closely related to Methylobacterium indicum. But one was a new strain, so the researchers from the University of Hyderabad, who are working in association with NASA’s reseaerchers have named this Methylobacterium ajmalii, one after an Indian biodiversity scientist Seyed Ajmal Khan, who is a professor at Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu. The genes present in this rod shaped bacteria are helpful in growth promotion, nitrogen fixation and pigment metabolism and helps in fighting plant diseases as well. This is surely a potential game- changer for space farming.
The International Space Station has hosted people from 19 countries On October 31st, 2000: William Shepherd of NASA and Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev of Russia, were launched from Kazakhstan on a Russian Soyuz rocket, and two days later became the first residents of the International Space Station (ISS). The crew…
Washington, Nov 17: NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi aboard the SpaceX Capsule Crew Dragon, named ‘Resilience’, arrived at the International Space Station. They joined Expedition 64 crew who flew to the station last month. The mission is the first…
Ever wondered about the dining experience in space? The ISS astronauts, normally have to rely on re-hydrated and frozen food during their stay but soon this may change.BioServe Space Technologies from university at Colorado have designed an amazing refrigeration system, Freezer Refrigerator Incubator Device for Galley and Experimentation (aka the…
