The trip of Blue Origin who took Katy Perry and five other women to space This Monday (14) was also important for studies that are being conducted by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Company, Embrapa, to develop sustainable cultivation systems outside the land .
Former rocket scientist Aisha Bowe was responsible for carrying her bags of chickpeas and sweet potato plants prepared at the Brazilian institution. The purpose of the studies is to improve genetic improvement techniques and bring innovations to agriculture practiced on our planet.
The initiative is part of the Space Farming Brasil network, a research group related to the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) that seeks to innovate in food production in extraterrestrial places.
With studies, scientists seek means of overcoming the barriers that the space environment offers when it comes to plant cultivation: high radiation, low gravity and the absence of soil
The challenges encountered in space can be related to the current difficulties of planting in Brazilian crops, such as the low availability of water and nutrients, and solutions encountered in the environmentless environments can help in the development of technologies in agriculture on land.
Sweet potatoes was chosen because it has a rapid growth and easy management in its creation. The plant of the species generates low -glycemic carbohydrate -rich vegetables and their leaves have proteins – supplying important nutritional demands of astronauts.
In addition, the chickpeas was selected by offering protein, having a high nutritional content and high adaptability. The purpose of the studies with this legume is to create more productive, smaller and more erect plants.
“We can advance a lot in modern technologies to assist in Brazilian agriculture, using artificial intelligence in irrigation, improvement and adequacy of plans in indoor cultivation, new more -tolerant cultivars, more efficient in energy use or more adapted to the challenges imposed by climate change, more productive and more nutritional,” said Embrapa Southeast Livestock researcher Alessandra Fávero and Coordinator of Space Farming. Brazil, in a press release.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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