{"id":243568,"date":"2026-09-03T09:06:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T14:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/nasa-scientists-grew-corn-seeds-in-space-and-found-that-microgravity-changed-how-the-seedlings-roots-and-shoots-grew"},"modified":"2026-09-03T09:06:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T14:06:48","slug":"nasa-scientists-grew-corn-seeds-in-space-and-found-that-microgravity-changed-how-the-seedlings-roots-and-shoots-grew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/nasa-scientists-grew-corn-seeds-in-space-and-found-that-microgravity-changed-how-the-seedlings-roots-and-shoots-grew","title":{"rendered":"NASA scientists grew corn seeds in space and found that microgravity changed how the seedlings\u2019 roots and shoots grew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-scientists-grew-corn-seeds-in-space-and-found-that-microgravity-changed-how-the-seedlings-roots-and-shoots-grew.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Long before astronauts ever plant a seed on the Moon or Mars, NASA has been testing a much simpler question here on Earth\u2019s doorstep: what happens when a corn seed germinates with no gravity to tell it which way to grow? Back in the early 1990s, researchers flew dry corn kernels aboard the space shuttle, let them sprout in orbit, and compared them against identical seedlings grown under normal gravity on the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before astronauts ever plant a seed on the Moon or Mars, NASA has been testing a much simpler question here on Earth\u2019s doorstep: what happens when a corn seed germinates with no gravity to tell it which way to grow? Back in the early 1990s, researchers flew dry corn kernels aboard the space shuttle, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243568","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=243568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}