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Ground and Flight-Based Plant Microbial Interaction Research and Related Space Crop Production Applications

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Ground and Flight-Based Plant Microbial Interaction Research and Related Space Crop Production Applications

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Plants can both support crew diets and contribute to biological life support systems in spaceflight and future habitats. To ensure optimal, consistent, healthy, and safe growth of plants in the spaceflight environment there is a need to develop standard practices to manage the plant-microbial interaction within this closed, controlled, and highly derived environment. Current research is building the foundational understanding of these complex interactions and will further provide the ability to engineer these interactions. Here we provide recommendations as to how the space biology community (academic, government, and industry) can work together to conduct research designed to 1. monitor, 2. select, 3. assess, 4. engineer, and 5. apply plant-relevant microbes in the spaceflight environment.

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