Source: NCSU COLLEGE OF  AG & LIFE SCIENCES, 6/23/22

Space. You may have heard it’s the final frontier, but for NC State plant scientists, it’s the next frontier. Last June, plant biology experiments prepared by NC State professor Marcela Rojas-Pierce were shot into space at more than 176,000 miles per hour while aboard SpaceX’s Dragon Spacecraft. Their destination: the International Space Station where an on-board astronaut crew carried out protocols developed by these researchers. This important plant research will help us better understand how plants grow in space and back here on Earth.

On this episode of Farms, Food and You, we talk with Professor Marcela Rojas-Pierce and learn more about this out of this world experiment and what it means for the future of agriculture practices at home and beyond our atmosphere.

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