363-7 The Martian: It's Not Just Science Fiction.

See more from this Division: SSSA Division: Soil Physics and Hydrology
See more from this Session: New Frontiers of Soil and Plant Sciences: Astropedology and Space Agriculture

Wednesday, November 9, 2016: 10:10 AM
Phoenix Convention Center North, Room 125 B

Bruce Bugbee, Crop Physiology Laboratory, Utah State University, Logan, UT, Scott B. Jones, 4820 Old Main Hill, Utah State University, Logan, UT and Jeanette M. Norton, Dep. of Plants, Soils and Climate, Utah State University, Logan, UT
Abstract:
Here we analyze the effect of altered atmospheres and reduced gravity on the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum.  Planetary environments will alter plant water status and water recycling rates.  Altered photosynthetic radiation will change plant metabolic rates and oxygen demand in the root-zone.  Rates of microbial nitrogen transformation will be altered. We have to science the shit out of this.

See more from this Division: SSSA Division: Soil Physics and Hydrology
See more from this Session: New Frontiers of Soil and Plant Sciences: Astropedology and Space Agriculture