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JotaCe - 07 Sep 2005 13:21 GMT

Hello

I am looking for information about greenhouse experiments in space. I
have found lots of information on the NASA web, but mostly useless (at
least in relation with what I am looking for). I would like to know
what is today's "state of the art" in growing plants in
microgravity (or also in low atmospheric pressure). I have some info
(not very much, anyway) on the experiments carried out in Salyuts and
Mir, the problems found and the fixes tried, but I haven't found
almost anything about improvements made in ISS; only descriptions of
the hardware and experiments, and grandilocuent words about the
possibilities for the future... but no analysis of results, no
conclusions, no new problems found and what is being investigated in
order to solve them... In short, I would like to know where we are know
in this matter, since it seems to me that not very much has been
achieved in the last 20 years.

Does anybody know where can I find some useful information about this?
Thank you very much

Regards,

Javier Casado
Madrid, Spain
http://es.geocities.com/fjcasadop

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Sebastian M. Strauch - 14 Sep 2005 21:51 GMT

Hi there,
for my thesis I've also been searching for stuff like that. There are many
interesting articles in two magazines:
1. Advances in space research:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=JournalURL&_cdi=5738&_auth=y&_acct=C000
050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=62d583c91f3d50e5bc99dc344304348e;
if you're working at an university, you might have access to full article.
2. Acta astronautica:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=JournalURL&_cdi=5679&_auth=y&_acct=C000
050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=15e29e5938ba073fac7dcb93387edbf5;
also here you need an access.
For what are you needing that information? Uh, maybe there's something on
www.elgra.org; there shouldn't be to much of NASA's stuff.
I hope this will help you.
Bye
Sebastian

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JotaCe - 19 Sep 2005 11:45 GMT

Thanks a lot, Sebastian. Some articles are very interesting.
Unfortunately, I have no access to the whole text, just the abstracts,
since I don't belong to any institute. However, even the abstracts are
interesting in some cases.
I looked for this info mostly for curiosity, although I expect to write
an article on this in the future (at "popular science" level).
I am an engineer almost illiterate in botanics, but the more I read on
this matter, the more interesting seems to me. I am learning a lot!

Regards,

Javier Casado
http://es.geocities.com/fjcasadop

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