2024 journal article
Conserved plant transcriptional responses to microgravity from two consecutive spaceflight experiments
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE, 14.
author keywords: transcriptional profiling; adaptation to spaceflight; Arabidopsis; microgravity (mu g); plants
TL;DR:
Two separate spaceflight experiments conducted on the International Space Station uncovered microgravity unique transcriptional changes and highlight the validity and importance of an onboard 1 g control.
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IntroductionUnderstanding how plants adapt to the space environment is essential, as plants will be a valuable component of long duration space missions. Several spaceflight experiments have focused on transcriptional profiling as a means of understanding plant adaptation to microgravity. However, there is limited overlap between results from different experiments. Differences in experimental conditions and hardware make it difficult to find a consistent response across experiments and to distinguish the primary effects of microgravity from other spaceflight effects.