{"id":139263,"date":"2022-05-12T21:02:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T02:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/scientists-successfully-grow-plants-in-moon-soil"},"modified":"2022-05-12T21:02:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T02:02:41","slug":"scientists-successfully-grow-plants-in-moon-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/scientists-successfully-grow-plants-in-moon-soil","title":{"rendered":"Scientists successfully grow plants in Moon soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-successfully-grow-plants-in-moon-soil2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time ever, scientists have successfully grown plants in soil from the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Florida planted seeds from the Arabidopsis plant \u2014 commonly known as thale cress \u2014 into a few teaspoons worth of lunar soil collected in the late 60s and early 70s during the Apollo 11, 12 and 17 missions.<\/p>\n<p>After about a week of watering and feeding, the seeds grew into and out of the soil, or lunar regolith, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s42003-022-03334-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a paper<\/a> detailing the experiment published Thursday in the scientific journal \u201cCommunications Biology.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time ever, scientists have successfully grown plants in soil from the Moon. Researchers from the University of Florida planted seeds from the Arabidopsis plant \u2014 commonly known as thale cress \u2014 into a few teaspoons worth of lunar soil collected in the late 60s and early 70s during the Apollo 11, 12 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}