Funding Status:
Planned-Funded - Task expected to be within budget
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Aims:
Identify traits/gene pathways that enable nutritious and acceptable foods to grow in the spaceflight environment (stresses include limited water, altered atmosphere, altered lighting, microgravity, and radiation).
Use genetic techniques to improve candidate spaceflight crops that currently do not grow well in the spaceflight environment (TBD).