16 January 2019
China grows cotton on the Moon
A cotton seed, carried to the moon by China's Chang'e-4 probe, is the first ... experiment on the lunar surface. The Chang'e-4 probe carried a number of seeds along with cotton, including, rape, potato and arabidopsis, as well as eggs of the fruit...
July 2020
Investigations into plant growth on the Moon
...discuss an experiment designed to understand the growth rate of cotton seeds in microgravity and their results. Why grow anything on the... the four plants (potato, cotton, rape seed and Arabidopsis), only the cotton seed germinated; the reason for this...
