Operations of a spaceflight experiment to investigate plant tropisms

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 879-886

  Kiss, John Z ^a   Kumar, Prem ^a   Millar, Katherine D L ^a   Edelmann, Richard E ^a   Correll, Melanie J ^b  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

EMCS; ISS; Microgravity; Plant biology; Space biology; Spaceflight hardware

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY; HARDWARE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROGRAVITY; PLANTS (BOTANY); SPACE SHUTTLES; SPACE STATIONS;

BIOREGENERATIVE SYSTEMS; EUROPEAN MODULAR CULTIVATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONS; PLANT BIOLOGY; SPACE BIOLOGY; SPACE SHUTTLE MISSIONS; SPACE-FLIGHT HARDWARE;

SEED;

EID: 69249203480     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2009.06.007     Document Type: Article

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