Plants in Space | Dr. Simon Gilroy | Kickapoo Valley Reserve

Presenter: Dr. Simon Gilroy is a professor in the Botany Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research is on how plants sense and respond to their environment. He works extensively with NASA on understanding how plants grow on the International Space Station and plans for using plants in life support on planetary bases.
NASA has a long history of partnering with university plant researchers to understand how plants respond to growing in space. This talk will cover the kinds of plant research going on in space and some of the recent work from UW-Madison. We will cover what problems we still need to solve, whether plants need gravity to grow normally and how close we are to using plants in a bioregenerative life support system to provide food and replenish the air in long-term spaceflight.
The Ralph Nuzum Lecture Series is free thanks to a grant by the Ralph E Nuzum Kickapoo Reforestation Fund through the UW-Madison College of Agricultural & Life Sciences, and the Friends of the Kickapoo Valley Reserve, and supported by Badger Talks.