Engineering strategies for the design of plant nutrient delivery systems for use in space: Approaches to countering microbiological contamination

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 18, Issue 4-5, 1996, Pages 5-20

  Gonzales, A A ^a   Schuerger, A C ^b   Barford, C ^c   Mitchell, R ^c  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Walt Disney World   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FUNGUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYDROPONICS; INFECTION CONTROL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; NASA DISCIPLINE LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 61-10; NASA PROGRAM CELSS; NON-NASA CENTER; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; SANITATION; SPACE FLIGHT;

NASA DISCIPLINE LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 61-10; NASA PROGRAM CELSS; NON-NASA CENTER;

BIOFILMS; ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, CLOSED; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FUNGI; HYDROPONICS; LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS; QUARANTINE; SANITATION; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 0029682969     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0273-1177(95)00857-B     Document Type: Article

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