Principal Investigator(s): Dorothy Shippen, Ph.D.
Overview: Superior Plant EXperiment-12 (APEX-12) will take a look at the speculation that induction of telomerase, a protein complicated, exercise in house protects plant DNA molecules from harm elicited by mobile stress evoked by the mixed spaceflight stressors skilled by seedlings grown aboard the house station.
Science targets:
- Acquire information on telomerase exercise in crops
- Examine the variations in telomere dynamics between crops and people in house
Potential Earth functions:
- Might result in the event of crops which might be extra resilient to environmental stressors, resembling drought or excessive temperatures
- Might present insights into therapies for age-related illnesses and coverings for illnesses in people which might be linked to telomere dysfunction
Potential house functions:
- Allow sustainable agriculture for long-term house missions
- Might result in methods for shielding astronauts from the consequences of microgravity and house radiation
- Might inform future efforts to develop crops on the Moon and Mars
Superior Plant EXperiment-12
Superior Plant EXperiment-12 (APEX-12), also called Telomere Dynamics and Oxidative Stress in Arabidopsis within the Area Radiation Surroundings, examines the consequences of house radiation on the genome and telomere exercise within the thale cress plant.
Superior Plant Experiment-07 (APEX-07)
Why NASA research plant telomeres and the connection to getting old and illness
Postdoctoral analysis affiliate at Texas A&M College Borja Barbero explains the significance of learning plant telomeres in house. The findings of his analysis with Dr. Dorothy Shippen supply perception into the consequences of spaceflight on plant chromosomes and the way these findings may impression human well being.
