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Elevating the Use of Genetic Engineering to Support Sustainable Plant Agriculture for Human Space Exploration

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Elevating the Use of Genetic Engineering to Support Sustainable Plant Agriculture for Human Space Exploration

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Establishing a sustained presence on the Moon, cis-lunar orbit, and on Mars, will require plant agriculture. Growing plants has both psychological and nutritional benefits (Odeh and Guy, 2017) and has long been held as pivotal to successful long-duration human space exploration. The role of plants as components of spaceflight and planetary life support systems has been specifically called out for several decades through NASA imperatives.

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