Gardening for therapeutic people-plant interactions during long-duration space missions
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Plants provide people with vital resources necessary to sustain life. Nutrition, vitamins, calories, oxygen, fuel, and medicinal phytochemicals are just a few of the life-supporting plant products, but does our relationship with plants transcend these physical and biochemical products? This review synthesizes some of the extant literature on people-plant interactions, and relates key findings relevant to space exploration and the psychosocial and neurocognitive benefits of plants and nature in daily life. Here, a case is made in support of utilizing plant-mediated therapeutic benefits to mitigate potential psychosocial and neurocognitive decrements associated with long-duration space missions, especially for missions that seek to explore increasingly distant places where ground-based support is limited.
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- Authors
- Odeh, R., & Guy, C. L.
- Affiliations
- University of Florida (US)
- Corresponding author
- Guy, Charles L.
- ORCID
- Guy, Charles L.
- Venue
- Open Agriculture
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2017-02-01
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-13
- ISSN
- 2391-9531 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2587942453
- Cited by
- 69
- References
- 14
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 4
- FWCI
- 1.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Open Agriculture (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Urban Green Space and Health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Spaceflight effects on biology
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Keywords
- medicinal plants, long-duration spaceflight, space exploration, psychosocial benefits, nature and well-being, plant-based nutrition, space agriculture
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