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  2. Plants in space - Wikipedia

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    Plants can metabolize carbon dioxide in the air to produce valuable oxygen, and can help control cabin humidity. [3] Growing plants in space may provide a psychological benefit to human spaceflight crews. [3] Usually the plants were part of studies or technical development to further develop space gardens or conduct science experiments. [1]

  3. Gravitropism - Wikipedia

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    Gravitropism (also known as geotropism) is a coordinated process of differential growth by a plant in response to gravity pulling on it. It also occurs in fungi. Gravity can be either "artificial gravity" [clarification needed] or natural gravity. It is a general feature of all higher and many lower plants as well as other organisms.

  4. Gravitational biology - Wikipedia

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    Plant tropisms are directional movements of a plant with respect to a directional stimulus. One such tropism is gravitropism, or the growth or movement of a plant with respect to gravity. Plant roots grow towards the pull of gravity and away from sunlight, and shoots and stems grow against the pull of gravity and towards sunlight.

  5. Space farming - Wikipedia

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    Plants grown inflight experience a microgravity environment, and plants grown on the surface of Mars experience approximately 1/3 the gravity that Earth plants do. However, plants experience normal growth given that directional light is provided. [10] Normal growth is classified as opposite root and shoot growth direction.

  6. Clinostat - Wikipedia

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    A plant only reacts to gravity if the gravistimulation is maintained for longer than a critical amount of time, called the minimal presentation time (MPT). For many plant organs the MPT lies somewhere between 10 and 200 seconds, and therefore a clinostat should rotate on a comparable timescale in order to avoid a gravitropic response.

  7. Space manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    The cost of space transport is directly related to the delta-v, or change in velocity required to move from the mining sites to the manufacturing plants. Bringing material to Earth orbit from bodies such as Near-Earth asteroids , Phobos , Deimos or the lunar surface requires far less delta-v than launching from Earth itself, despite the greater ...

  8. Auxin - Wikipedia

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    Growth of cells contributes to the plant's size, unevenly localized growth produces bending, turning and directionalization of organs- for example, stems turning toward light sources (phototropism), roots growing in response to gravity (gravitropism), and other tropisms originated because cells on one side grow faster than the cells on the ...

  9. Plant perception (physiology) - Wikipedia

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    Plant perception is the ability of plants to sense and respond to the environment by adjusting their morphology and physiology. [1] Botanical research has revealed that plants are capable of reacting to a broad range of stimuli, including chemicals, gravity, light, moisture, infections, temperature, oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations, parasite infestation, disease, physical disruption ...