Onboard Artemis I: Studying Plant Seeds in Space
Dr. Federica Brandizzi (Michigan State University) is the Principal Investigator for the Life Beyond Earth: Effect of Spaceflight on Seeds with Improved Nutritional Value study, one of four studies under NASA’s Biological & Physical Sciences Division’s Biological Experiment-01 (BioExpt-01) aboard Artemis I. This study will characterize how spaceflight affects nutrient stores in Arabidopsis thaliana plant seeds with the goal of gaining new knowledge that will help increase the nutritional value of plants grown in spaceflight.