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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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.
 

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JOURNAL

PLoS ONE

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0272209 

ARTICLE TITLE

Farming on Mars: Treatment of basaltic regolith soil and briny water simulants sustains plant growth

ARTICLE PUBLICATION DATE

17-Aug-2022