The research involves exposing seeds to cosmic radiation.
More than 100 kinds of plant material for space breeding were sent to the Tiangong space station aboard the Shenzhou 16 mission, Chinese space officials have revealed.in late May come from 53 institutions, according to the China Manned Space Agency .
These include 47 crops, consisting of 12 grain crop seeds, 28 cash crop seeds, seven saline-alkali tolerant plants, and 76 species of forest plants, grasses, flowers and medicinal plants. A further 13 microorganisms, including agricultural and industrial microorganisms, edible fungi, algae and mosses, are also part of the cornucopia of genetic material shipped to orbit.
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