Growing Plants In Lunar Regolith

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The plant Arabidopsis thaliana (Wikipedia URL) was chosen to be grown in lunar soil from the Apollo missions. Arabidopsis thaliana is a small flowering plant. It has had its entire genome sequenced, and being the first plant that has had it's entire genome sequenced, that's why it was chosen.

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The plants died because oxidative stress, but did at least germinate.

 

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