{"id":217845,"date":"2025-07-14T13:06:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/we-engineered-the-perfect-space-food-us-scientists-unveil-super-dwarf-plant-designed-to-keep-astronauts-alive-and-thriving-on-years-long-missions-to-mars"},"modified":"2025-07-14T13:06:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:06:56","slug":"we-engineered-the-perfect-space-food-us-scientists-unveil-super-dwarf-plant-designed-to-keep-astronauts-alive-and-thriving-on-years-long-missions-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/we-engineered-the-perfect-space-food-us-scientists-unveil-super-dwarf-plant-designed-to-keep-astronauts-alive-and-thriving-on-years-long-missions-to-mars","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe Engineered the Perfect Space Food\u201d: US Scientists Unveil Super-Dwarf Plant Designed to Keep Astronauts Alive and Thriving on Years-Long Missions to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-engineered-the-perfect-space-food-us-scientists-unveil-super-dwarf-plant-designed-to-keep-astronauts-alive-and-thriving-on-years-long-missions-to-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IN A NUTSHELL \ud83c\udf3e The Moon-Rice project is developing \u201csuper-dwarf\u201d rice to support long-duration space missions and extreme Earth environments. \ud83d\udef0\ufe0f Led by the Italian Space Agency, the project involves collaboration between three Italian universities specializing in rice genetics, crop physiology, and space crop production. \ud83d\udd2c The research focuses on using CRISPR-Cas technology to create<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN A NUTSHELL \ud83c\udf3e The Moon-Rice project is developing \u201csuper-dwarf\u201d rice to support long-duration space missions and extreme Earth environments. \ud83d\udef0\ufe0f Led by the Italian Space Agency, the project involves collaboration between three Italian universities specializing in rice genetics, crop physiology, and space crop production. \ud83d\udd2c The research focuses on using CRISPR-Cas technology to create<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217845","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}