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The Multiplanetary Future of Plant Synthetic Biology

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Llorente, Briardo, Williams, Thomas C., Goold, Hugh D.·2018·Genes
DOI 10.3390/genes9070348PMC PMC6071031
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The interest in human space journeys to distant planets and moons has been re-ignited in recent times and there are ongoing plans for sending the first manned missions to Mars in the near future. In addition to generating oxygen, fixing carbon, and recycling waste and water, plants could play a critical role in producing food and biomass feedstock for the microbial manufacture of materials, chemicals, and medicines in long-term interplanetary outposts. However, because life on Earth evolved under the conditions of the terrestrial biosphere, plants will not perform optimally in different planetary habitats. The construction or transportation of plant growth facilities and the availability of resources, such as sunlight and liquid water, may also be limiting factors, and would thus impose additional challenges to efficient farming in an extraterrestrial destination. Using the framework of the forthcoming human missions to Mars, here we discuss a series of bioengineering endeavors that will enable us to take full advantage of plants in the context of a Martian greenhouse. We also propose a roadmap for research on adapting life to Mars and outline our opinion that synthetic biology efforts towards this goal will contribute to solving some of the main agricultural and industrial challenges here on Earth.

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  • Loading food supplies onto the shuttle for a journey to Mars involves serious technical limitations.

    “A journey to Mars requires tool inputs and food supplies, but loading the latter onto the shuttle involves serious technical limitations [1,2]”

    From Mars Regolith Simulant Ameliorated by Compost as in situ Cultivation Substrate Improves Lettuce Growth and Nutritional Aspects (2020) · cites this paper as [2]

    Section 1 says the enormous logistical costs of launching and resupplying resources from Earth limit human space exploration; Section 2 says Mars missions will need to reduce reliance on shipped cargo. This supports a general difficulty with transporting supplies, but the paper does not identify technical limitations specific to loading food onto a shuttle. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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  • The provision of terrestrial resources to permanent extra-terrestrial human settlements is not economically sustainable.

    “The provision of terrestrial resources to permanent extra-terrestrial human settlements is not economically sustainable (Verseux et al., 2016), not only because of the high cost and resource/energy requirements, but also due to the difficulty and time needed to plan and execute launches (Llorente et al., 2018).”

    From The Potential for Lunar and Martian Regolith Simulants to Sustain Plant Growth: A Multidisciplinary Overview (2022) · cites this paper as Llorente et al., 2018

    Section 1 describes the enormous logistical costs of launching and resupplying resources from Earth, and the resources and energy needed to sustain extraterrestrial greenhouses. It does not say that the difficulty or time required to plan and execute launches is a reason, so that part of the explanation attributed to Llorente et al. is unsupported. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  • Plants can sustain crew survival away from Earth by producing fresh food and contributing ecological services such as air purification and water recycling.

    “Plants can sustain crew survival away from the Earth, by producing fresh food as part of their edible biomass and simultaneously contributing to several ecological services like air purification and water recycling [2,6,7,8,9]”

    From Mars Regolith Simulant Ameliorated by Compost as in situ Cultivation Substrate Improves Lettuce Growth and Nutritional Aspects (2020) · cites this paper as [2]

  • Plants produce O2 and fix CO2, serve as food for space crews, have a role in water recycling, and are actively involved in soil structure formation.

    “Plants produce O 2 and fix CO 2 , serve as food for space crews, have a role in water recycling (Maggi and Pallud, 2010;Llorente et al., 2018), and are actively involved in soil structure formation.”

    From The Potential for Lunar and Martian Regolith Simulants to Sustain Plant Growth: A Multidisciplinary Overview (2022) · cites this paper as Llorente et al., 2018

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Llorente, B., Williams, T. C., & Goold, H. D.
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  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (AU)
  • New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (AU)
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Published
2018-07-10
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9
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348
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2073-4425 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.3390/genes9070348
PMC
PMC6071031
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Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Synthebiont)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Space exploration and regulation
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Planetary Science and Exploration
Keywords
plant synthetic biology, Mars colonization, space agriculture, plant bioengineering, research roadmap

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