Improvements in the re-flight of spaceflight experiments on plant tropisms

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 545-552

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

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; EMCS; ISS; Phototropism; Spaceflight research

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY; HARDWARE; MICROGRAVITY; MICROGRAVITY PROCESSING; PLANTS (BOTANY); SPACE STATIONS; TEMPERATURE;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUROPEAN MODULAR CULTIVATION SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATIONS; PHOTOTROPISM; SPACE-FLIGHT HARDWARE; TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES; TECHNICAL IMPROVEMENT;

SEED;

EID: 78951472733     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2010.09.024     Document Type: Article

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