To grow food on Mars, researchers find that alfalfa plants can fertilize the natural soil and marine cyanobacteria can desalinate the high salt water
IMAGE: GROWTH OF RADISH PLANTS IN ALFALFA TREATED BASALTIC REGOLITH SIMULANT SOIL USING FRESH WATER (LEFT), UNFILTERED (MIDDLE) OR FILTERED (RIGHT) BIODESALINATED WATER. view more
CREDIT: KASIVISWANATHAN ET AL., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (HTTPS://CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG/LICENSES/BY/4.0/)
To grow food on Mars, researchers find that alfalfa plants can fertilize the natural soil and marine cyanobacteria can desalinate the high salt water
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0272209
Article Title: Farming on Mars: Treatment of basaltic regolith soil and briny water simulants sustains plant growth
Author Countries: U.S.A.
Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.
JOURNAL
PLoS ONE
ARTICLE TITLE
Farming on Mars: Treatment of basaltic regolith soil and briny water simulants sustains plant growth
ARTICLE PUBLICATION DATE
17-Aug-2022
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